Senior Scala Engineer

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August 19

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Zego

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Insurance • Transport

Zego is a company that provides flexible motor insurance solutions for various types of drivers and riders, including private hire taxi drivers, delivery drivers, and courier users. Zego's insurance products cover vehicles such as cars, scooters, motorbikes, and vans, and are designed to accommodate both personal and business use. Using technology such as the Sense telematics app, Zego offers personalized and potentially cheaper insurance premiums for safe drivers. The company collaborates with major delivery and ride-sharing platforms like Uber, Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Amazon Flex to offer tailored insurance options for their drivers. Zego emphasizes customer satisfaction, providing easy-to-use services via their app, and is a trusted provider for thousands of UK and European drivers.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

🚗 Transport

💰 $150M Series C on 2021-03

📋 Description

• Design, enhance, test, deploy, and own Scala microservices that deliver business and user value. • Work on distributed, cloud-based systems, ensuring they are reliable, observable, and well-tested. • Collaborate closely with Engineers, Product Managers, and other cross-functional partners to deliver outcomes. • Contribute to architectural discussions and influence system design across teams. • Write clean, maintainable code and review contributions from others to maintain high quality. • Stay adaptable, applying your engineering fundamentals across languages and frameworks when needed. • Professional experience delivering backend systems in Scala and Akka, plus non-trivial projects in at least one other backend language (e.g. Java, Python, Go, Kotlin). • Strong computer science fundamentals- data structures, algorithms, concurrency, distributed systems. • Experience with cloud microservices architectures (AWS preferred) and CI/CD workflows. • Familiarity with SQL and document databases. • Proven track record in building and maintaining production systems at scale. • Comfortable adapting to evolving technical landscapes and learning new technologies quickly. • Collaborative and pragmatic, with excellent communication skills. • You’re actively curious about how AI can enhance your work - keen to experiment, learn quickly, and apply tools that improve productivity, streamline tasks, or unlock new ways of thinking. Whether you’re already hands-on or fast building confidence, you take ownership of staying ahead and working smarter

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience delivering backend systems in Scala and Akka, plus non-trivial projects in at least one other backend language (e.g. Java, Python, Go, Kotlin). • Strong computer science fundamentals- data structures, algorithms, concurrency, distributed systems. • Experience with cloud microservices architectures (AWS preferred) and CI/CD workflows. • Familiarity with SQL and document databases. • Proven track record in building and maintaining production systems at scale. • Comfortable adapting to evolving technical landscapes and learning new technologies quickly. • Collaborative and pragmatic, with excellent communication skills. • You’re actively curious about how AI can enhance your work - keen to experiment, learn quickly, and apply tools that improve productivity, streamline tasks, or unlock new ways of thinking. Whether you’re already hands-on or fast building confidence, you take ownership of staying ahead and working smarter

🏖️ Benefits

• Market-competitive salary • Private medical insurance • Company share options • Generous holiday allowance • Wellbeing benefits • Annual flexible hybrid working contribution (to travel to the office or towards personal development)