£100,000 - £115,000 base salary
We’re partnered with an AI-native customer experience platform that’s transforming how ecommerce brands support and engage with their customers through intelligent AI Agents.
They’re now looking to hire a Senior Scala Software Engineer with strong Scala experience to help scale a high-performance backend platform powering some of the world’s leading retail brands.
This is a backend-focused engineering role, working across distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API integrations within a modern functional Scala environment.
You’ll join a highly technical product engineering team building scalable systems that sit at the core of a rapidly growing AI product used internationally across ecommerce and customer support environments.
Company Culture:
- Hybrid working - 3 days per week in the London
- High-autonomy engineering environment with strong ownership and trust
- Fast-moving product business with genuine technical depth
- Collaborative and low-ego culture where engineers influence product direction
- Strong focus on learning, experimentation, and modern engineering practices
- International team working at the intersection of AI, ecommerce, and customer experience
What’s on Offer:
- £100,000 - £115,000 base salary
- 34 days holiday including your birthday off
- Learning & Development budget
- AI training and tooling access
- Lifestyle and wellbeing allowance
- Quarterly socials and team perks
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI products at scale
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Building backend services and platform functionality using Scala
- Designing and delivering scalable distributed systems and microservices
- Developing APIs and integrations with third-party customer support platforms
- Contributing to architecture decisions across core product infrastructure
- Working closely with product and engineering teams to deliver new platform capabilities
- Building maintainable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems
- Helping scale a modern AI platform used by global ecommerce brands
What We’re Looking For:
Strong Scala Experience:
- Commercial experience building backend systems with Scala, including experience with modern Scala tooling and libraries
- Strong understanding of functional programming principles
Backend & Distributed Systems Engineering
- Experience designing and building microservices architectures
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and distributed systems
- Comfortable working with scalable backend infrastructure and integrations
- Experience with PostgreSQL and relational databases
- Understanding of scalable cloud-native architecture and deployment practices
If this sounds like your kind of opportunity, feel free to reach out for a confidential conversation.