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🚀 Technical Lead Python Software Developer | London | US Sports / Quant Trading
🚨 Please note: this role cannot provide visa sponsorship. Please do not apply if you require sponsorship.
What if you could build the technology behind a new trading operation from the ground up — without inheriting years of legacy?
We’re a small, world-class quantitative trading firm building a new operation across UK prediction markets and the rapidly growing US sports market.
We’re looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to shape the engineering function from day one. You’ll work alongside experienced quants, traders, and developers, owning everything from low-latency data and execution systems to model deployment, risk, simulation, and observability.
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This is a role for someone who enjoys:
- Making architectural decisions, not just implementing them
- Solving hard performance and reliability problems
- Staying hands-on while raising the technical bar for others
- Moving quickly in an environment where the roadmap is still being written
- Using Python, distributed systems, and modern AI tooling to build genuinely new infrastructure
You’ll have significant freedom over the technology, architecture, and engineering practices — with the opportunity to have a direct impact on the success of the operation.
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Requirements:
- 5+ years’ software engineering experience
- Strong CS fundamentals
- A degree from a top university
- Experience in trading, betting, low-latency, or data-intensive systems is a bonus, not a prerequisite
Benefits:
- Competitive salary + significant bonus potential
- 33 days’ holiday
- Enhanced pension
- Health insurance
- And more
Interested in building something from scratch at the intersection of technology, quantitative trading, and US sports? Get in touch.
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