Platform Engineer – Low-Latency Trading Analytics & Systems

Longshot Systems Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped company bonus scheme

10% matched pension contributions

Private healthcare insurance

Long term illness insurance

Gym membership

Job summary

Longshot Systems builds advanced platforms for sports betting analytics and trading. We seek a Software Engineer to own and develop our trading platform, architecting features and improving performance, stability, and security.

The role involves integrating more trading venues, optimizing latency, and contributing to technical excellence while collaborating with a small, focused team in a hybrid setup based in London.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience building distributed systems with high throughput and low latency.
• Experience delivering and maintaining production systems in Go, C++, Rust, Java or C#.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement features to meet product, performance and stability goals.
• Own and enforce coding standards, CI/CD, observability and security.
• Integrate more trading venues and optimise the platform for speed and safety.
• Collaborate with the team to contribute to technical excellence across the platform.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

C++

Rust

Java

C#

Architecture & design

Cloud & DevOps

English communication

Startup experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in quantitative/technical field

Tools

AWS

Linux

CI/CD

Job description

Longshot Systems builds advanced platforms for sports betting analytics and trading. We seek a Software Engineer to own and develop our trading platform, architecting features and improving performance, stability, and security.

The role involves integrating more trading venues, optimizing latency, and contributing to technical excellence while collaborating with a small, focused team in a hybrid setup based in London.