Software Engineer

We are looking for a Developer to join our small, dynamic team developing cutting-edge football data acquisition and analysis systems. We are leveraging frontier LLM systems to generate high-value structured data in real time, from diverse data sources, including social media. This is an opportunity to work on challenging technical problems in a collaborative environment where your contributions directly impact our platform's success. 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data acquisition systems taking inputs from social media and other unstructured online sources, which produce timely structured data for internal use in models and trading systems
• Implement and maintain relational database schemas and API integrations which interface the above with internal modeling and trading systems
• Enhance and refactor existing systems for scale and performance
• Monitor and optimize system performance to maintain and improve low-latency pipelines
• Collaborate closely with football analyst team to ensure data utility and accuracy

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Postgres: Familiarity with Postgres and/or other traditional RDBMS.
• Programming Proficiency: Strong skills in Java (Spring), experience in Python, and working knowledge of R
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Docker containerization
• API Development: Experience building and integrating with RESTful APIs, particularly for real-time applications
• AI/LLM integration: Experience with design and delivery of analytics pipelines which include LLM elements for conversion of unstructured to structured data: familiarity with prompt engineering in this domain with OpenAIand/ or other frontier model APIs
• Version Control & CI/CD: Proficiency with Git and modern deployment practices

Benefits

• Salary depending on experience.
• Annual discretionary performance bonus.
• 25 days holiday per annum, plus UK bank holidays.
• Private health & dental insurance.
• Optical cover through Aviva. 
• Pension plan.
• Gympass membership to over 1900 gyms and wellness businesses. 
• Breakfast bought in everyday and lunch bought in twice a week
• Free coffee & snacks at the office.
• Regular team events & socials.