Back-End Engineer; Scala​/JDK

Description

Napier AI’s AI‑powered platform detects financial crime in real time, analysing transactions and customer data to spot suspicious activity such as money laundering.

The Scala Engineer is a key member of our core Engineering team, building a powerful, flexible financial crime detection engine used by top Financial Institutions globally.

• Lead development, debugging and unit testing of product features following internal procedures and standards.
• Diagnose and solve functional and performance/scalability issues.
• Improve technical practices to maintain a continuously releasable end state, focusing on Git Hub, CI/CD and development processes.
• Collaborate with tech leads, Solution Architects, Product Owners and stakeholders to design technical solutions aligned with business and technical goals.

• Hands‑on programming experience – Scala and either Rust or Go.
• Experience with Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Git Hub.
• Cloud experience – Azure, AWS or GCP and data processing in cloud.
• Database and SQL development experience, especially Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working with remote engineering teams and distributed delivery models.

• Programming in Kotlin or Java.
• Analytics engines such as Elastic Search.
• Key Cloak, ETL tools, performance engineering, CI/CD and Dev Ops tooling.
• Observability tools like Open Telemetry, Grafana, Prometheus.

• Comprehensive private healthcare through AXA covering optical, audio & dental.
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays, birthday and wellness days.
• Dedicated pension plan through Aviva.
• Life Insurance 4x annual salary.
• Enhanced maternity & paternity leave.
• Income protection policy.
• Work from anywhere for up to 1 month.
• Gym membership discounts.
• Flexible working schedules and locations; role can be hybrid or fully in‑office.

Final date to receive applications: 30 January 2026 | Department:
Technology |

Location:

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Please note applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom. We are unable to offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.