Scala Engineer

What we’re all about.

Do you ever have the urge to do things better than the last time? We do. And it’s this urge that drives us every day. Our environment of discovery and innovation means we’re able to create deep and valuable relationships with our clients to create real change for them and their industries. It’s what got us here – and it’s what will make our future. At Quantexa, you’ll experience autonomy and support in equal measures allowing you to form a career that matches your ambitions. 41% of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We speak over 20 languages across our 47 nationalities, creating a sense of belonging for all.

Opportunity

As a Scala Engineer at Quantexa, you’ll play a key role in shaping one of the most critical components of our Decision Intelligence platform: Decision Systems.

The Decision Systems team is responsible for turning complex, interconnected data into actionable insights — helping global organizations detect patterns, uncover risks, and make smarter decisions. You’ll work across the software stack, from enhancing our scoring capabilities to uncover financial crime, to building tools that make detection logic easier and more powerful for our users. Your work will directly influence how clients identify suspicious activity and protect their businesses.

This isn’t just about coding, stakeholder management will be a growing focus of this role. You’ll have the autonomy to take features from concept to release, collaborating closely with product teams and delivery experts to design solutions that make a real impact. You’ll be part of a talented, supportive team that values innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

The role is focused on Scala development using the latest in agentic AI tooling. Typical tasks in the team are: 

• Building new tooling to allow users to configure detection logic more easily and effectively
• Enhancing the platform so that existing Scores can be applied across a wider range of scenarios
• Improving the performance of the system so even the largest datasets can be analysed efficiently

There are 3 different sub-teams within Decision Systems, each focusing on different areas across the scoring capability within Quantexa. Specifics of the remit and differences between these teams can be shared upon request.

We have a great team culture, with regular socials and a strong presence in Quantexa’s London office, whilst maintaining a flexible working policy allowing for regular home working. Come and be a part of the next stage of the growth of our team and Quantexa as a whole! 

What do I need to have?

• Take pride in designing, building and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problems 
• Take a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider system 
• Commercial Scala experience or Functional Programming experience with languages such as Java
• Have experience of the full engineering life cycle, from design and implementation through to testing and deployment 
• Passion and drive to grow within one of the UK’s fastest growing scale-ups  

Experience in the following would be beneficial but not essential: 

• Working with big data technology, ideally Spark but others will also be useful such as Hadoop or Elasticsearch 
• Experience with DevOps tooling and approaches (automation and tooling is something we are passionate about, we even have a dedicated Developer Tooling team) 
• Building data processing pipelines for use in production batch systems, including either traditional ETL pipelines and/or analytics pipelines 
• Manipulating data through cleansing, parsing, standardising etc, especially in relation to improving data quality/integrity 

Why join Quantexa?

Our perks and quirks. 

What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits. 

We offer: 

• Competitive salary and Company Bonus 💰 

• Flexible working hours in a hybrid workplace & free access to global WeWork locations & events 

• Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%) 

• 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off! 🌴 

• Work from Anywhere Scheme: Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period 

• Family: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave 

• Private Healthcare with AXA 

• EAP, Well-being Days, Gym Discounts 🧘 

• Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep 🧘‍♀️ 

• Workplace Nursery Scheme 

• Team's Social Budget & Company-wide Summer & Winter Parties 

• Tech & Cycle-to-Work Schemes 

• Volunteer Day off 

• Dog-friendly Offices 

Our mission. 

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future. 

It’s all about you. 

It’s important to us that you feel welcome, valued and respected. After all, it’s your individuality and passion for what you do that will make you Q. We see that – which is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’ve created and will continue to improve our inclusive and diverse work environment. Regardless of your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity or ableness – whoever you are – if you are a passionate, curious and caring human being who wants to push the boundaries of what’s possible, then we want to hear from you. 

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