Hiring: Lead Scala Developer | £460/day (Inside IR35) | Hybrid – Leeds or Newcastle - #2169957

Hiring: Lead Scala Developer | £460/day (Inside IR35) | Hybrid – Leeds or Newcastle

Are you a hands-on Scala leader who likes building things that matter at national scale? We’re looking for a Lead Scala Developer to lead a talented team on a high-profile digital programme for a major UK public sector organisation. The services you build will be used by millions of people.

The Essentials

Rate: £460 per day (Inside IR35)

Location: Hybrid, Leeds or Newcastle (2 days in the office)

Travel: Monthly travel likely, with an overnight stay if you’re not local

Clearance: BPSS

What You’ll Be Doing

Leading the design and build of full-stack solutions in Scala, across both front end and back end

Making sure best practice in secure coding, testing and deployment runs through the whole development lifecycle

Giving hands-on technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to a team of developers

Driving architecture discussions and shaping high-level technical decisions

Running code reviews and giving constructive feedback that improves quality and maintainability

Working with DevOps, QA and cross-functional teams to deliver robust, scalable and secure solutions

Explaining complex technical ideas clearly to stakeholders and non-technical colleagues

Contributing to engineering craft communities and sharing best practice and thought leadership

What You’ll Bring

Proven experience as a Lead Developer or in a similar leadership role, with a strong Scala background

Strong skills in Scala and functional programming principles

Hands-on experience building microservices with the Play Framework

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git and modern tools such as IntelliJ, VS Code and sbt

Essential: experience working in a macOS or Linux environment

A strong understanding of Agile methods and practices

A track record of influencing architecture decisions across large codebases

Excellent problem-solving skills, strategic thinking and strong communication

Why Join?

Lead engineering on services that make a real difference to the public

Work at real scale, with modern tooling and a strong engineering culture

Be part of a collaborative, craft-focused community that values your expertise

Get a competitive day rate and a flexible hybrid working pattern

Interested? Apply now or send me a DM to find out more. If you know someone who’d be a great fit, please tag them or share this post!

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