Senior Software Engineer

Forge Sports is a quietly operating, product focused company building a new generation of B2B sports-trading and exchange technology. The company is still in stealth mode with very few external dependencies. We are a small, highly technical founding group with significant industry experience. The team is moving fast and building a brand new product from scratch.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team as one of our first engineers, working alongside the CTO and founding engineer on developing our exchange platform. As one of the first engineers, you will report directly to the founding engineer and contribute to defining the wider engineering culture. This role suits someone who loves to take a high degree of ownership in their work and cares deeply about building highly-performant, well-designed systems. We are looking for someone who will be deeply involved in areas beyond programming; working on and with our build system, infrastructure and managing production systems. With a high degree of ownership comes shared responsibility for production; you'll participate in our on-call rotation alongside the rest of the engineering team. This is the role for an engineer who wants to build systems end-to-end and see them through to production.

We use Golang extensively across all services, you don’t need to be fluent in Golang, but must be eager to learn.

We are a hybrid working company, working Thursdays in our London (Farringdon) office and flexible the rest of the week. Our typical working hours are 10 am to 6 pm UK time (Monday to Friday) but we support flexible working and trust our team to manage their own schedules to meet their goals.

You are a great fit if

• You want to join early and help shape engineering from the ground up
• You care deeply about the quality of the code you write
• You thrive with ownership across the full development lifecycle

Interview Process

1. Intro call (30 mins) - your background + motivation + technical screening
2. Technical Interview (90 mins) - coding exercise + deep dive
3. Full assessment day (10:30–5pm in the office) - a one day systems programming exercise designed to be similar to the real work we do in the team. Meet some of the team, see the office, have a nice lunch (on us).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in a quantitative or technical subject (e.g. Maths, EE, Physics, Comp Sci) from a top university
• Demonstrable experience building mission critical distributed systems (finance, gaming, telco, ad-tech, etc.) where throughput, latency, 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 and GitHub Actions. Comfortable using latest AI tools efficiently and safely
• 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.
• SRE/incident response experience

Benefits

• Participation in the company bonus scheme
• 10% matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare insurance
• Long term illness insurance
• Gym membership