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Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

Longshot Systems Ltd

London, GBR

Full-time

Senior

Hybrid

Discovered 2 weeks ago

GoC++RustJavaC#AWS

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Key skills for this role

GoC++Rust

Bachelor’s or Master’s in a quantitative or technical subject (e.g. Maths, EE, Physics, Comp Sci) from a top university
Deep experience building mission critical distributed systems (finance, gaming, telco, ad-tech, etc.) where throughput, correctness and availability are a hard requirement.
Startup experience: Proven track record shipping products in small, fast moving teams.
Proven track record delivering and maintaining production systems in at least one systems language (Go, C++, Rust, Java, C#, etc.), with clear, idiomatic designs.
Architecture & design: Able to reason about trade offs and produce clean, evolvable service boundaries.
Cloud & DevOps: comfortable working in AWS, linux and wrangling build pipelines. We have dedicated DevOps people, but you do need to be competent in the core skills here.
Fluent written and spoken English. Communicating with the team is as important as the technical work. You need to be able to effectively collaborate on everything from low level details to long term strategic planning.
Nice to have
Trading, market making or exchange experience.

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