Job title:
Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead) - Scala

Job type:
Permanent

Salary:
£100,000 - £130,000 + equity

Role Location:
London - 1-2 x per week

The company:
A fast-growing, privacy-first technology company building large-scale, real-time data platforms. The organisation operates globally at very high traffic volumes and is known for strong engineering culture, modern distributed systems, and a focus on developer autonomy and ownership.

Role and responsibilities:

• Lead technical direction for a core platform team
• Own architecture and delivery of distributed, data-intensive systems
• Mentor engineers and set technical standards
• Work closely with product and internal stakeholders
• Build and scale data ingestion and data export services
• Remain hands-on while providing technical leadership

Job requirements:

• Prior experience in technical leadership, mentoring engineers, drive technical and architectural decisions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Strong, recent experience with functional programming (ideally Scala), but open to other FP languages or JVM-based languages.
• Experienced with the type-level eco-system (Cats Effect).
• Cloud platform (AWS/GCP), with Kubernetes, Terraform etc. 
• Messaging systems like Kafka or Kinesis.

Benefits:

• Equity / stock options
• Flexible working hours and hybrid setup
• Generous paid time off
• Enhanced parental leave
• Home office budget
• Ongoing learning & development support
• Mental health and wellbeing resources
• Pension / retirement contributions

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