Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer (Golang)
London – Hybrid flexible
Up to £80,000 + equity
We're currently partnered with a real-time sports data platform that is revolutionising how companies leverage data to empower their business. They are looking for a performance focused Senior Engineer with a passion for writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code. This is an exciting opportunity to join collaborative and innovative startup with opportunities for professional growth and learning.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop high-throughput, low-latency APIs using Go.
- Build and maintain real-time data ingestion and processing pipelines.
- Optimise backend services for scalability, reliability, and millisecond-level performance.
- Implement websocket and streaming endpoints for live data delivery.
- Collaborate with front-end teams to power trading consoles and dashboards.
- Profile and tune Go applications for performance and memory efficiency.
- Ensure secure API design and compliance with data privacy regulations.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and documentation.
Key requirements
- Strong experience with Golang in production environments.
- Experience with VPS-based deployments.
- Solid understanding of microservice architecture and distributed systems.
- Knowledge of concurrency patterns and performance optimisation.
- Experience with APIs, networking, and real-time data systems.
- Familiarity with observability tools.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
Nice to Have
- Experience building high-throughput, low-latency APIs in Go.
- Knowledge of real-time data ingestion and streaming pipelines.
- Exposure to profiling and optimisation tools.
- Understanding of fault-tolerant, scalable microservice architectures.
- Experience with websocket or streaming endpoints for live data delivery.
- Background in integrating APIs with external partners or platforms.
- Awareness of observability best practices.
- Knowledge of secure API design, authentication, and rate-limiting.
- Interest in sports data.
Why Apply?
- Salary up to £80,000.
- Remote working possibility & flexible hybrid set up
- London Office
- Opportunities for professional growth.
- Strong Equity offering
- All expenses paid work trips to exciting locations.
- A collaborative team where every role is respected equally.
- Strong learning environment.
- The ability to shape an early-stage start-up and contribute to building a company that puts its internal teams and customers first.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to help shape the future of a transformative real-time data platform. If you're passionate about building world-class, high-performance systems and want to make your mark in a fast-growing tech company, we'd love to hear from you.
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