Senior Scala Software Engineer

About the role

Architus, a recruitment firm connecting UK and US businesses with EU engineering talent, is recruiting a Senior Scala Software Engineer for a UK energy company building a significant presence in Lithuania. You will join a small, cross-functional engineering team that owns the platform powering every customer onboarding journey across multiple digital channels, and that builds highly available, reliable services supporting millions of customers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high-performance backend services for large-scale customer journeys
• Take ownership of production-ready solutions and solve complex technical challenges
• Develop modern Scala applications using functional programming principles
• Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders on services running on Google Cloud Platform

Required profile

• Strong commercial experience developing backend applications in Scala
• Proven experience in a fast-paced growth environment
• Fluent English with excellent written and verbal communication
• Willingness to own code from development to production

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of Scala
• Advantageous: Typelevel stack (Cats, Cats-Effect, Http4s, FS2)
• Advantageous: Kafka or event-based architecture
• Advantageous: cloud-native apps on GCP, Terraform, API development, TDD

What we offer

• Salary from EUR 7,000 gross per month, depending on experience (full-time only)
• Hybrid working and extra vacation days
• Modern, pet-friendly office with parking and snacks
• Health insurance, third-pillar pension benefits and high-spec hardware