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# 7 Fundamentals of Software Engineering

- **Company:** Laotop
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Shard (Database Architecture), Microprocessors, Domain Name System (DNS), Memory Management, OSI Models, Routing, Software Engineering, TCP/IP, Virtual Memory, Load Balancing, Concurrency, Caching, Firewalls (Computer Science), Event Driven Architecture
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2858064137-7-fundamentals-of-software-engineering

## About the Role

* Object-oriented programming
 * Functional programming
 * Type systems
 * Static vs dynamic typing
 * Memory safety
 * Compilation vs interpretation
 * VMs & runtimes
 * Garbage collection
 * Imperative vs declarative languages

## Description

* Arrays
 * Linked lists
 * Stacks queues
 * Hashmaps
 * Sets
 * Heaps
 * Trees & graphs
 * Sorting and searching
 * BFS & DFS
 * Complexity analysis (time and space: Big O notation)
 * Recursion
 * Greedy algorithms
 * Divide and conquer

Databases & Storage

 * Relational models
 * ACID
 * Isolation levels
 * Indexing
 * Query planning
 * Normalisation vs denormalisation
 * Replication
 * Sharding
 * Consistency models
 * Transactions at scale

Operating Systems

 * Processes & threads
 * Scheduling
 * Interrupts & syscalls
 * Locks & race conditions
 * Memory management
 * Virtual memory
 * IO systems
 * Concurrency

Computer Architecture

 * CPUs
 * Caches
 * Pipelining
 * Instruction sets
 * Hardware vs software optimisation
 * Memory hierarchy

Networking

 * OSI model
 * TCP/IP
 * DNS
 * NAT
 * TLS / HTTPS
 * Routing
 * Load balancing
 * Firewalls
 * Congestion control

Mathematics for Computing

 * Logic
 * Discrete maths
 * Probability
 * Statistics
 * Graph theory
 * Linear algebra
 * Boolean algebra
 * Combinatorics
 * Proofs
 * Number theory

Distributed & Cloud Systems

 * Replication
 * Partitioning
 * CAP theorem
 * Event-driven architecture
 * Idempotency
 * Eventual consistency
 * Queues & streams
 * Serverless fundamentals


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