Real-Time Python Backend Engineer for Trading Data

Mustard Systems; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Health insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical after 5 years

33 days leave

Job summary

Mustard Systems in the United Kingdom is building data-driven sports analytics and trading tools. We are seeking a software engineer with strong Python experience to join a fast-moving team that values practical impact over perfect code.

You'll own features from design to production, work on low-latency data pipelines, and collaborate with traders and quants to solve real business problems. Hybrid working model offered, with in-office presence and remote days.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software development with Python expertise.
• Degree in Computer Science or numerical subject from a top university.
• Exceptional communication skills to convey complex technical ideas clearly.
• Strong decision-making with balanced trade-offs in implementation and architecture.
• Experience with web scraping and reverse engineering against bot protection tooling.
• At least 3 years of software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Expand access to liquidity providers via web scraping and reverse engineering.
• Develop low-latency real-time data feeds for trading strategies.
• Enhance system visibility and diagnose integration issues.
• Design and build features aligned with business goals delivering measurable value.
• Review and test code for functionality, maintainability and performance.
• Support production and participate in out-of-hours for software systems.
• Collaborate with traders and quants on cross-team projects.

Skills

Python

Web scraping

Reverse engineering

Communication

Decision making

Education

CS or numerical degree

Tools

RabbitMQ

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

Linux

Job description

Mustard Systems in the United Kingdom is building data-driven sports analytics and trading tools. We are seeking a software engineer with strong Python experience to join a fast-moving team that values practical impact over perfect code.

You'll own features from design to production, work on low-latency data pipelines, and collaborate with traders and quants to solve real business problems. Hybrid working model offered, with in-office presence and remote days.