Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer: Sports Betting Up to £120,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits London - 5 Days On-Site | Python | Java | AI | Low Latency | Distributed Systems Build software where performance, mathematics and real-time decision-making genuinely matter.

We're partnering with a highly technical sports betting business continuing to invest in its engineering function. They're looking for Senior Software Engineers to work on complex backend systems operating across real-time data, quantitative problems and high-performance distributed architecture.

This is an opportunity for engineers who enjoy difficult technical problems rather than simply delivering features or maintaining an existing codebase. You'll have significant technical ownership, contribute to architectural decisions and work alongside engineers tackling problems around latency, scalability, reliability and large-scale data processing.

The Role You'll join a highly technical engineering team building and evolving systems used within a quantitative sports betting environment. You'll work across: Designing and building scalable backend services Developing primarily with Python and Java Building low-latency and high-throughput systems Processing large volumes of real-time data Developing distributed and event-driven architectures Building integrations with external platforms and APIs Optimising system performance and reliability Solving complex scalability and concurrency problems Contributing to system architecture and technical direction Working with cloud-native infrastructure and containerised applications Applying strong analytical and mathematical thinking to engineering problems Working alongside teams using AI and machine learning within the wider technology environment Technology Python | Java | GCP | Docker | REST APIs | Distributed Systems | Event-Driven Architecture | Streaming | Real-Time Data | AI/ML What We're Looking For We're looking for engineers with strong backend foundations who have worked on technically demanding systems where speed, reliability and scale matter.

You'll ideally have

Strong commercial Python experience Professional Java experience Experience with distributed backend systems Experience with real-time or high-throughput applications Low-latency engineering experience Strong analytical and mathematical problem-solving ability Experience with cloud platforms, ideally GCP Docker/container...

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