Senior Software Engineer

Football Radar; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports analytics company in London is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance its football analysis capabilities. You will develop and maintain software systems, focusing on distributed, low latency architectures. Ideal candidates are eager to tackle challenges, have experience with AWS, Docker, and various programming languages, and ideally, share a passion for football analytics. This role offers a flexible work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Half yearly bonus opportunities

33 days holiday

Competitive contribution matched pensions

Subsidised private medical care

Subsidised office meals

Learning and development budgets

Team engagement activities

Subsidised gym membership

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in low latency, highly available, distributed systems.
• Comfortable with mathematical and statistical approaches to football.
• Experience with sports betting or football analytics is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain software for football match analysis and prediction.
• Work with a varied tech stack in a dynamic environment.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services.

Skills

Distributed systems experience

Cloud technologies (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)

Technical leadership

Programming in Scala, Python, C++, Typescript, PHP

Event-driven architecture

Communication skills

Time management

Organizational skills

Job description

Overview

Football Radar

For over a decade, Football Radar has excelled in developing statistical models and analytical frameworks for football. Our expertise extends to providing advisory services to football clubs and offering leading-edge betting advice that has consistently delivered outstanding returns for our clients. We define ourselves as a unique blend of start-up dynamism and established business security, combining the flexibility of the former with the stability of the latter. Our mission is simple, we are ‘changing the game’.

About the Role

At Football Radar, we analyse and predict football matches. In the role of a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for helping build and maintain the software that makes that possible - everything from modern web applications to statistical models, real time data platforms to cloud infrastructure.

As a growing company it is key that our software engineers have the adaptability to change and respond to the needs of the business. This will suit a person who thrives on a varied approach to their workday and enjoys the undertaking of new challenges.

This role is based at our London office, at 106 Kensington High Street, London W8 4SG. You will have flexibility to work from home one day a week. Please note we are not considering remote candidates at the moment.

Role Requirements

We are looking for engineers with at least 5 years of experience working in low latency, highly available, distributed systems. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our backend infrastructure.

We are first and foremost a football company, and to have a big impact here, it will help if you have domain expertise – you will probably be a big football fan, and ideally someone who is comfortable with the mathematical and statistical approaches we are applying to the game. If you have any experience with sports betting or football analytics that is a bonus.

We’d love to hear from you if this sounds like you:

• Well-versed in working with distributed systems in the cloud (our software runs in AWS, deployed via Docker and Kubernetes).
• Willing to work across our tech stack: Scala, Python, C++, Typescript and PHP.
• Enjoys technical leadership and guiding product development, shaping the vision and implementation of backend platforms effectively.
• Ability to design, implement, and maintain scalable, distributed backend services leveraging Apache Kafka using event-driven architecture and asynchronous processing.

• Honest, open and authentic in your communication and approach.
• Thrives on responsibility and ownership.
• Pragmatic mindset.
• Excellent communication, time management and organisational skills.

Benefits

We have a range of benefits available at Football Radar and continue to review these to ensure our colleagues are gaining everything they can from them.

• Half yearly bonus opportunities
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Competitive contribution matched pensions
• Subsidised private medical care and on site health checks and vaccinations
• Subsidised office meals
• Opportunities for learning and development budgets to invest in your personal growth
• Company and team led engagement activities throughout the year
• Subsidised gym membership