Senior Software Engineer

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.

• 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.

• 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.