Job Vacancy Senior Backend Engineer

Scala Developer
London
Hybrid - at least once a week in Central London
Up to £85,000 DOE + Regular Pay Reviews + Healthcare + Life Insurance + Benefits

Excellent opportunity for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong Scala and functional programming experience to join a small, highly technical team offering broad ownership, autonomy, regular pay reviews, and the chance to influence backend architecture and technical direction.

This company are pioneers within a specialist technology-led insurance market. Having been acquired by a larger US-based organisation impressed by their product, platform, and technical capability, they are now looking to grow their permanent engineering team as they continue scaling their systems and improving the reliability, maintainability, and operability of their platform.

In this role you will work across backend Scala development, architecture, infrastructure, APIs, data flows, and production systems supporting areas such as broker-facing products, pricing and underwriting workflows, claims processes, internal tooling, automation, and operational systems. You'll work closely with frontend, product, underwriting, claims, operations, and broker success teams, helping turn complex business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.

The ideal candidate will be a Backend Engineer with strong commercial Scala experience and a good understanding of functional programming principles. You will also have experience with AWS infrastructure, and CI/CD, Terraform, APIs, databases, and production support would be beneficial. Candidates must have full right to work and live in the UK and be comfortable working autonomously in a small, high-trust engineering environment.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing business where you can stay close to the code, take ownership of important backend systems, influence architectural decisions, and work on complex, real-world products in a regulated, data-rich environment.

The Role:

• Backend development using Scala and functional programming approaches
• Working across APIs, microservices, data flows, integrations, and distributed systems
• Improving backend architecture, scalability, resilience, observability, and maintainability
• Collaborating with product, frontend, underwriting, claims, operations, and broker success teams

The Person:

• Strong commercial Scala development experience
• Good understanding of functional programming principles
• Experience with AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, Terraform, databases, APIs, or production systems
• Comfortable working autonomously and influencing technical direction in a small team

Reference Number: BBBH273480

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles.

The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client.

We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.