Join Longshot Systems Ltd: Remote Software Engineer Opportunity

Posted: Aug 14, 2024

Longshot Systems Ltd is seeking talented individuals to join our team as a Remote Software Engineer. 🌍 Location: Worldwide. 💸 Salary: $40k - $60k USD.

About Us

At Longshot Systems, we are dedicated to building cutting-edge platforms for sports betting analytics and high-frequency trading. As a member of our platform development team, you will be crucial in designing, developing, and maintaining integrations with various trading venues, bookmakers, and data feeds. Our distributed platform is low latency, handling substantial real-money trading activity and processing thousands of messages per second while executing complex analyses and event-driven trading decisions.

Why Join Us?

The demand for our services is growing rapidly, presenting an array of scaling issues, technological challenges, and various general problems for you to tackle. Our technology stack primarily includes Golang and Postgres, deployed using Docker and a robust CI/CD pipeline featuring GitHub Actions. We emphasize continuous integration and delivery, integration testing, and other tools to ensure frequent, safe releases. We also embrace open-source technology and encourage contributions back to the community.

This role is fully remote, though we do have a hybrid team in the UK who work together one day per week in London. We aim to automate extensively, minimizing on-call work. When on-call duties arise (e.g., during significant events like the World Cup), they are compensated at a multiple of your regular rate.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop API integrations and website scrapers connecting to external trading venues, bookmakers, and data sources using Golang.
• Write clean, testable, maintainable, and robust code.
• Contribute to discussions on future and existing architecture.
• Collaborate directly with product owners to shape project direction.

Hiring Process

Apply for this role and take our , which includes an intro video from David Prime, Co-Founder of Longshot Systems. The test takes 21 minutes. Following this, our process includes:

1. Web scraping challenge (1-1.5 hours).
2. Call with our CTO to discuss the role and answer your questions (30 mins).
3. Interview with our platform team (1 hour).
4. One-day paid work trial (8 hours).

Requirements

We seek candidates with a strong software engineering background and broad experience in high-performance computing topics such as multi-threading, networking, and web technologies. Whether you're a Junior or Senior engineer, if you are excited by this role, we encourage you to apply!

• Strong academic record with a degree in a computing or mathematical field (e.g., Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Engineering, or Physics).
• Professional experience in systems languages (Java, C++, C#, Go, etc.), ideally with Golang.
• Knowledge of web and web scraping technologies, including understanding browser data processes.
• Experience with modern application architectures around databases and messaging systems.
• Skilled in distributed systems, test frameworks, continuous integration, monitoring, and debugging highly available components.
• Comfortable navigating the software stack as necessary to troubleshoot issues.
• Proficiency in Linux platforms and knowledge of scripting languages.
• A commitment to engineering excellence and best practices.
• Systematic, analytical approach to problem-solving and solution design.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills, especially in a remote work environment.

Even if you don't fit all these criteria, we encourage you to apply. So long as you're enthusiastic about learning and hard work, we want to hear from you.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary range of $40,000 to $60,000 USD based on experience and interview performance, along with a 10% annual bonus based on company performance. We provide all the necessary equipment for you to work comfortably and safely from home.

Apply now and join Longshot Systems Ltd to help revolutionize sports betting analytics and high-frequency trading!