Software 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

• 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

Requirements

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

Desired Experience

• 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

We Offer

• Competitive salary & Company bonus
• 25 days annual leave (with the option of buying up to 5 days, and rolling over up to 10), plus national holidays + your birthday off!
• Pension scheme with a company contribution of 6% (when you contribute 3%)
• Private Healthcare, including dental & optic cover
• Life Insurance and Income Protection
• Regularly benchmarked salary rates
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave
• Well‑being days
• Volunteer Day off
• Work from Home Equipment
• Commuter, Tech and cycle to work schemes
• Free Subscription to a meditation, relaxation and sleep app
• Continuous Training and Development
• Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12‑month period with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy
• Team Social Budget & Company‑wide Socials

Equal Opportunity Employer

We want you to feel welcome, valued, and respected - because it’s your individuality and passion that make you Q. We see that, and we celebrate it. That’s why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, continuously improving to ensure everyone belongs. Our recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and accessible. If you need any reasonable adjustments or accommodations, please let our Talent Acquisition Team know - we’re happy to assist.

No matter your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity, or abilities—whoever you are—if you're a passionate, curious, and caring human eager to push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.