Senior Backend & Platform Engineer (Sports Betting)

Location: Fully remote, but candidates must be based in the United Kingdom. The role is associated with London and Paddington.

Salary: £90,000–£130,000 per year

Company

Specialist sports data and technology business operating as a sports betting hedge fund startup.

What you will do

• Build production software for a core Java platform or Python-based trading and market-making systems.
• Own and improve the AWS production environment.
• Design and operate containerized services, ideally using ECS.
• Implement infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.
• Manage IAM, networking, security, incident response, and production reliability.
• Take broad ownership of systems and improve them iteratively in a hands-on engineering environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience.
• Strong backend software engineering experience with Java and Spring Boot or Python.
• Strong infrastructure capability beyond scripting and automation.
• Experience with AWS, containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.
• Experience with IAM, networking, security, incident response, and production ownership.
• Existing right to work in the United Kingdom is required; visa sponsorship is not available.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work from within the United Kingdom.
• Small, technically strong team.
• Pragmatic, hands-on engineering with broad ownership.
• Direct responsibility for production systems and iterative improvement.