Senior Scala Developer

IBM • Leicester, GB

Company

IBM

Location

Leicester, GB

Type

Full Time

Job Description

Introduction

In this role you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM CIC is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer :

  • Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
  • Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
  • Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
  • Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
  • A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
  • Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
  • Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches sabbatical programs paid paternity leave maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
  • More traditional benefits such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays) private medical dental & optical cover online shopping discounts an Employee Assistance Program life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior Scala Developer you’ll participate in many aspects of the software development lifecycle such as design code implementation testing and support. You will create software that enables your clients’ hybrid-cloud and AI journeys.

You’ll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies ensuring the applications delivered are high performing highly available responsive and maintainable.

Your primary responsibilities include:

  • Development and implement front-end and back-end applications using Scala.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design  develop and test applications that meet business requirements.
  • Follow best practices in code quality  testing  and deployment throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Contribute to decision-making and improvement ideas.
  • Communicate effectively with cross functional team  translating technical concepts into clear and understandable language.
  • Actively participate in customer craft communities  sharing IBM best practices and thought leadership.
Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Proficiency in Scala Development
  • Strong experience in developing applications in Scala including functional and object-oriented programming paradigms.
  • Experience with Scala libraries and frameworks such as Akka Play Framework and Cats.
  • Systems administration experience for Scala
  • Strong written and verbal communication to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
  • Experience mentoring junior developers and participating in code reviews to uphold high quality standards.

As an equal opportunities’ employer we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However for you to be eligible for this role you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years.

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience with J2EE applications JBoss Jenkins Ansible Git
  • A strong understanding of Agile methodologies and ways of working.
  • Experience leading client facing Scrum ceremonies.
  • Java  Spring Framework  Web Services JMS MDB Junit JIRA.
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Date Posted

12/09/2025

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