Scala Engineer, Quantexa
Decision intelligence platform
Job no longer available
Decision intelligence platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower every organization with the right data to make the right decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Take pride in designing, building and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problems
- The desire to work with the latest technology stacks
- Knowledge working with any of the following technologies or libraries: Akka, Monix, Cats, Shapeless, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Gradle, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes
- Have experience in functional programming using Scala
- Take a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider system
- Ability to work confidently with other areas of the business
- Passion and drive to grow within one of the UK’s fastest growing scale-ups
Desirable
- Experience working with any of the following technologies or libraries: Akka, Monix, Cats, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Gradle, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with Cloud technologies (we use GCP internally)
- Experience building software which deploys to both on-premise and cloud Environments
- Experience mentoring junior Engineers
What the job involves
- 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 Akka and Monix 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Quantexa specialises in data connectivity, offering companies a vital tool to streamline their information. By bringing together diverse data sets and enhancing internal information with external resources, it enables organisations to generate valuable insights, facilitating more informed decision-making processes.
Since its inception in 2016, Quantexa has experienced exponential growth, establishing a global presence with offices spanning various continents. Its clientele includes prestigious names such as HSBC and Shell, underscoring its reputation as a trusted partner in the realm of data analysis and interpretation.
Enterprises today recognise the untapped potential within their data repositories, and Quantexa is there to help them leverage this resource. One notable partnership has been with the British government's Public Sector Fraud Authority, where its technology helps combat fraud by applying its advanced analytics to identify and address fraudulent activity.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2025
$175m
SERIES F
Apr 2023
$129m
SERIES E
Total funding: $545m
Company benefits
- Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%)
- 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off!
- Health & Wellbeing: Private Healthcare, EAP, Well-being Days, Calm App, Gym Discounts
- Tech & Cycle-to-Work Schemes
Company HQ
Waterloo, London, UK
Leadership
Vishal Marria
(CEO & Founder)Previously an Executive Director at EY, and Director of Financial Services at BAE.
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