Golang Software Engineer – Sports betting Hedge Fund – London

Hybrid 2 days in the office and 3 days from home

*Please note this role cannot sponsor. Please do not apply if you are seeking sponsorship*

Golang Software Engineer is required for a leading provider of sports betting brokerage software worldwide based in London. The successful Golang Engineer will be to joining a small, tight-knit team, working closely with the quantitative researchers and alongside other extremely talented and driven engineers to build and support systematic trading models. The successful Golang Engineer will be designing, building and maintaining production-grade microservices using Go, developing resilient APIs to power trading and data workflow systems. You will work with real-time market data feeds and message queues for high-frequency event processing and implement robust database models and interfaces (PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar).

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 3 years in Go.
• Solid understanding of concurrent programming, networking, and system design.
• Experience building APIs or backend services for data-heavy or trading platforms.
• Strong SQL and database schema design skills.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or container orchestration.
• Experience with pub-sub systems (e.g., NATS, Kafka, or RabbitMQ).
• Comfortable with DevOps workflows: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Clear communication skills and a proactive, independent working style in small teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with financial or trading systems (execution engines, market data pipelines, order routing, FIX, or WebSocket streaming).
• Knowledge of time-series databases and metrics systems.
• Exposure to low-latency or high-load environments.
• Interest in data visualization or quantitative analytics.