Senior Real-Time Distributed Systems Engineer

Acquire Me; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquire Me in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a growing engineering team focused on real-time data streaming, distributed systems and event-driven applications. The role offers ownership over architecture and delivery in a lean team.

You will work with Java, Rust, Go, Kotlin and other languages, building scalable services that handle high-volume data with low latency, collaborating with researchers and trading teams, and contributing to engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong background in backend engineering and distributed systems.
• Experience building real-time, streaming or event-driven applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, real-time data streaming and event-driven systems.
• Develop distributed services handling large volumes of data with demanding performance and reliability requirements.
• Solve technical challenges around scalability, concurrency, data processing and system performance.
• Own projects end-to-end, from architecture and design through to production.
• Work closely with engineers, researchers and trading teams to develop solutions to complex business problems.
• Contribute to technical direction and engineering best practices across the team.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Real-time streaming

Concurrency

Performance

Problem solving

Technical curiosity

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Job description

Acquire Me in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a growing engineering team focused on real-time data streaming, distributed systems and event-driven applications. The role offers ownership over architecture and delivery in a lean team.

You will work with Java, Rust, Go, Kotlin and other languages, building scalable services that handle high-volume data with low latency, collaborating with researchers and trading teams, and contributing to engineering best practices.