Software Engineer

Company: Formula Recruitment Limited
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you own end-to-end delivery of real-time video, data and AI analysis on a sports content platform. You’ll work in a small, high-trust team focused on rapid, autonomous delivery and robust systems. You’ll shape architectures, manage complex pipelines and push for high-quality, secure, performant software. This is an AI-native engineering environment where you’ll leverage modern tooling to drive impact. You’ll join a mission to advance real-time analytics in live sports with scalable cloud-native systems.

Responsibilities

  • own end-to-end delivery of real-time video, data, and AI analysis on the platform
  • design and implement scalable, low-latency pipelines and architectures
  • collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality features
  • enforce code quality, security, and performance practices
  • integrate AI/LLM capabilities into products and workflows
  • maintain and evolve cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and related tooling
  • advocate automation to reduce manual work and increase productivity
  • stay current with rapid technology advancements and apply them to the product

Key requirements

  • polyglot mindset with strong Java 21 backend proficiency
  • Front-end experience with SolidJS (or React/Vue/Svelte with willingness to switch)
  • experience integrating and building products with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, etc.)
  • daily use of AI tools for productivity and AI workflow development
  • engineering rigor: clean, tested, documented code with security and performance in mind
  • agile, fast-moving environment with ownership and delivery focus
  • forward-thinking and proactive automation
  • high-impact, collaborative mindset
  • humility with awareness of personal blind spots
  • Java 21
  • Kafka
  • Postgres

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Posted: September 25th, 2026