Lead Scala Engineer, Quantexa

• Take pride in designing, building and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problems
• Take a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider system
• Commercial Scala and Functional Programming experience (we may consider candidates without if their commercial background is relevant e.g. Java and they have some non-commercial Scala experience)
• Have experience of the full engineering life cycle, from design and implementation through to testing and deployment
• Experience with DevOps tooling and approaches (automation and tooling is something we are passionate about, we even have a dedicated Developer Tooling team)
• Passion and drive to grow within one of the UK’s fastest growing scale-ups

Desirable

• You’ll be joining the Research and Development department where you will be working on our core Contextual Decision Intelligence offering: The Quantexa Platform
• The Quantexa Platform helps our Customers solve business problems in areas such as fraud, financial crime, data management and many more
• Our products process, analyse and display huge volumes of data with the ultimate aim of detecting anomalous and suspicious activity
• The R&D department consists of over 100 people split into agile teams of Engineers, Product Owners, Designers, QA and others each focusing on specific projects and areas of the Platform
• Our back end services are primarily written in Scala and deployed as microservices
• We are huge fans of functional and strongly typed programming, making use of libraries such as Cats and Shapeless
• We use Pekko and Cats-Effect to help build scalable, highly performant, distributed systems. We utilise techniques such as event sourcing and CQRS in our persistence layer to ensure our datastores are scalable and flexible