Senior Backend Engineer

Scala Developer

London – Hybrid: at least once a week in Central London

Up to 85,000 DOE + Regular Pay Reviews + Healthcare + Life Insurance + Benefits

Excellent opportunity for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong Scala and functional programming experience to join a small, highly technical team offering broad ownership, autonomy, regular pay reviews, and the chance to influence backend architecture and technical direction.

This company is a pioneer within a specialist technology‑led insurance market. Having been acquired by a larger US‑based organisation impressed with their product, platform, and technical capability, they are now looking to grow their permanent engineering team as they continue scaling their systems and improving the reliability, maintainability, and operability of their platform.

In this role you will work across backend Scala development, architecture, infrastructure, APIs, data flows, and production systems supporting areas such as broker‑facing products, pricing and underwriting workflows, claims processes, internal tooling, automation, and operational systems. You’ll work closely with frontend, product, underwriting, claims, operations, and broker success teams, helping turn complex business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.

• Backend development using Scala and functional programming approaches
• Working across APIs, microservices, data flows, integrations, and distributed systems
• Improving backend architecture, scalability, resilience, observability, and maintainability
• Collaborating with product, frontend, underwriting, claims, operations, and broker success teams

• Strong commercial Scala development experience
• Good understanding of functional programming principles
• Experience with AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, Terraform, databases, APIs, or production systems
• Comfortable working autonomously and influencing technical direction in a small team

We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.