Senior Scala Engineer, Trainline
Data Platform
40% in office
3 days a week in office ( Holborn, London)
Europe's leading rail ticketing platform
Job no longer available
Europe's leading rail ticketing platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
40% in office
3 days a week in office ( Holborn, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Trainline is proud to be Europe's leading rail and coach platform - a tech company with a mission to make train travel as smooth as possible to allow travellers to make greener travel choices.
Role
Who you are
- Thrive in a diverse, open and collaborative environment where impact is as valuable as technical skill
- Have excellent knowledge of Scala and the JVM ecosystem
- Possess strong understanding of functional programming paradigms and a willingness to adopt other languages (not only JVM languages)
- Have consistent background in software development in high volume environments
- Have a pragmatic and open-minded approach to achieving outcomes in the simplest way possible
- Have worked with stream processing technologies (Kafka, Storm, AWS Kinesis, etc)
- Have experience with AWS services especially EMR, ECS, EKS
- Have an obsession with software quality, Dev Ops and automation
- Work well in lean, agile, cross-functional product teams using Scrum and Kanban practices
- Are a good communicator and comfortable with presenting ideas and outputs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer (Scala), you will be part of a cross-functional data product team working alongside data scientists, machine learning engineers and BI engineers
- Our data product teams are deeply embedded in the business so your work will have high impact by either drive key business decisions, provide deep customer insights or by adding intelligent machine learning experiences right in the core of our customer journeys
- We use an agile delivery playbook that encourages incremental and iterative delivery, aims to release value early and often, measure the impact of work and using hypotheses to ensure we are solving real customer problems
- Use cutting-edge Data technology to deliver world-class data products using a combination of streaming technologies, machine learning and automated data pipelines
- Work in self-organised, cross-functional data teams alongside machine learning engineers, BI engineers and product managers
- Drive continuous improvement to the software engineering and agile working practices of the team
- Contribute to the Technical / Architecture direction of the team
Application process
- Recruiter Call (30 mins)
- Meet the manager (30 mins)
- Technical discussion with x2 Engineers (60 mins)
- Meeting a cross-functional team member (30 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Trainline make it super easy to book transport tickets. Its app is intuitive and well designed and its even pioneering paperless travel, allowing users to store their tickets in the app.
It's hyper-focused on customer experience and has a product culture of fast iteration to deliver great outcomes for customers. Its customers make 170,000 journeys a day and it sells 200 tickets a minute.
Its continuing to innovate to stay ahead, using machine learning to predict price movements and integrating with Siri and Google Assistant so people can buy tickets simply by speaking to their phone.
Steph
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Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"The complex nature of the market as we work with different suppliers is an amazing opportunity to create fluid solutions. A very well segmented..."
Company benefits
- Flexible working (60% min office attendance)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted gym memberships through Wellhub
- Private Health and Dental Insurance
- Enhanced Pension (matched contributions)
- Income Protection
- Share Incentive Plan (buy one get one free)
- Learning budget
- Primary & Secondary Caregiver Leave
- Shared Parental Leave
- Enhanced sick pay
- Free Perkbox subscription
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- YellowNest - Subsidised Childcare Fees
- Work from Abroad
Company values
- Own It - We care about every customer, partner and journey
- Do Good - We make a positive impact
- Travel Together - We're one team
- Think Big - We are building the future of rail
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jody Ford
(CEO)Joined Trainline in 2020 as COO before becoming the CEO in 2021. Previously the Group CEO at Moonpig and Photobox and also spent over 10 years at eBay in various VP roles.
Lisa Hillier
(Chief People Officer)Previously the CPO at Gousto, The Restaurant Group, and Just Eat. They also spent over 6 years at Betfair as the Head of HR and Chief Human Resource Officer.
Mike Hyde
(Chief Technology Officer)Previously a Director of Data Science at Facebook and as a Director of Business Insights at Skype and Microsoft.
Sakshi Anand
(Chief Growth Officer)Joined Trainline in 2023 as the VP of Growth and President of UK before becoming the CGO in 2025. They are also the Founder of NeuStar Consulting.
People progressing
Gary joined in 2022 from Comparethemarket as Director of Engineering and was recently promoted to VP Engineering, reporting directly to CTO.
Joe joined in 2022 from Meta as Director of Data Science and was recently promoted to VP Data, reporting directly to CTO.
Ali joined in 2023 from Meta and was recently promoted to VP Product, reporting directly to CPO.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Trainline
- 💚 Diversity drives us forward We know that having a diverse team is crucial to Trainline’s ongoing success. A team that is diverse in all forms – gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought are key to Trainline being an inclusive environment where every Trainliner can be their true self. We're committed to creating workplaces where everyone belongs, is celebrated and their differences are valued, creating an awesome employee and customer experience. 💚 Meet our Networks Our diversity networks are inclusive communities developed and led by Trainliners, with sponsorship and support from senior leaders. They're all about empowering and supporting underrepresented groups, by providing a safe space to talk, a place to come up with new ideas and a channel for voices to be heard. 🚀 Women in Leadership 💜 Gender Equality Network 🏳️🌈 Rainbow Train (LGBTQIA+) 🌻 Sunflower (accessibility) 🌍 Ethnic Diversity Network 🐣 Parent & Carers
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