Scala Software Engineer

£100,000 - £115,000 base salary

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We’re partnered with an AI-native customer experience platform that’s transforming how ecommerce brands support and engage with their customers through intelligent AI Agents.

They’re now looking to hire a Senior Scala Software Engineer with strong Scala experience to help scale a high-performance backend platform powering some of the world’s leading retail brands.

This is a backend-focused engineering role, working across distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API integrations within a modern functional Scala environment.

You’ll join a highly technical product engineering team building scalable systems that sit at the core of a rapidly growing AI product used internationally across ecommerce and customer support environments.

Company Culture:

• Hybrid working - 3 days per week in the London
• High-autonomy engineering environment with strong ownership and trust
• Fast-moving product business with genuine technical depth
• Collaborative and low-ego culture where engineers influence product direction
• Strong focus on learning, experimentation, and modern engineering practices
• International team working at the intersection of AI, ecommerce, and customer experience

What’s on Offer:

• £100,000 - £115,000 base salary
• 34 days holiday including your birthday off
• Learning & Development budget
• AI training and tooling access
• Lifestyle and wellbeing allowance
• Quarterly socials and team perks
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI products at scale

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Building backend services and platform functionality using Scala
• Designing and delivering scalable distributed systems and microservices
• Developing APIs and integrations with third-party customer support platforms
• Contributing to architecture decisions across core product infrastructure
• Working closely with product and engineering teams to deliver new platform capabilities
• Building maintainable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems
• Helping scale a modern AI platform used by global ecommerce brands

What We’re xwzovoh Looking For:

Strong Scala Experience:

• Commercial experience building backend systems with Scala, including experience with modern Scala tooling and libraries
• Strong understanding of functional programming principles

Backend & Distributed Systems Engineering

• Experience designing and building microservices architectures
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and distributed systems
• Comfortable working with scalable backend infrastructure and integrations
• Experience with PostgreSQL and relational databases
• Understanding of scalable cloud-native architecture and deployment practices

If this sounds like your kind of opportunity, feel free to reach out for a confidential conversation.