Senior Golang Software Engineer – Sports betting Startup– London

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

Senior Golang Software Engineer is required for a leading provider of sports betting brokerage software worldwide based in London. The successful Golang Engineer will be joining a small, tight-knit team of 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.