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AA-7108 Staff Recently added

Software Engineer (Game Operations)

United Kingdom
9 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered Go and gRPC microservices with Kafka-backed distributed pipelines supporting live workloads of up to 100,000 concurrent users. Refactored C# monoliths into cloud-native services across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with emphasis on reliability and observability.

  • RabbitMQ event processing
  • Redis-backed high-frequency data flows
  • Terraform Kubernetes infrastructure
  • Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger monitoring
GoGo FiberGo GingRPCC#C/C++
Interviewing now £45k-60k/yr
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WZ-7248 Lead Recently added

Senior Software Engineer

10 years

Engineered high-performance Linux-based systems, specializing in inter-process communication and threading for optimized concurrency. Developed process management tools to streamline resource allocation and improve system reliability.

  • Designed low-latency messaging systems in Golang
  • Implemented custom IPC mechanisms for secure data exchange
  • Optimized threading models achieving 40% efficiency gain
CGolangLinuxIPCThreadingProcess Management
Salary on request
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#HIRED Staff Recently hired

Lead Backend Developer

London
6 years
Remote
Employee
Experienced software engineer with strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Proven track record delivering production systems at scale. Skilled in designing fault-tolerant services, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring junior developers across cross-functional teams.
  • Led migration of monolithic system to microservices architecture
  • Built high-throughput data pipeline processing 1M+ events per second
  • Designed and implemented real-time monitoring and alerting platform
GoGinKafkaDockerKubernetesTerraformRedisPostgreSQL
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AJ-6850 Lead

Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead

United Kingdom
11 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Leads Go systems processing 5–6 billion telematics points and generating 6–7 million safety events daily through real-time ingestion and geospatial computation. Redesigned speeding detection around confidence-based scoring and added multimodal verification using GPS trajectories, contextual histograms, and language-model-assisted explanations.

  • Customer-configurable precision-recall trade-offs
  • High-throughput data-platform architecture
  • AWS distributed-service operation
  • Security-platform engineering
GoJavaC++C#SQLDistributed Systems
Available in 1 month £100k-120k/yr
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SJ-1152 Senior

Software Engineer (Go / Rust)

United Kingdom
7 years
Flexible

Built Go and Rust services for live AI sign-language video, covering SRT and RTMP ingest through low-latency HLS and DASH delivery on AWS and Kubernetes. Implemented reconnectable ingest sessions, PCM audio extraction, AWS MediaLive relays, CMAF fragmented MP4, and synchronized manifests.

  • Picture-in-picture live composition
  • FFmpeg-based media processing
  • CloudFront video distribution
  • Terraform-managed streaming infrastructure
GoRustTypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsC#
Available in 1 month Salary on request
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SD-6765 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
8 years

Expert in building enterprise-level applications using Golang and Java, with a focus on object-oriented design principles. Developed backend systems and APIs for large-scale transactional systems. Integrated modern front-end frameworks like React and Angular for seamless user interfaces.

  • Designed fault-tolerant systems with Spring Boot
  • Implemented caching strategies for improved application performance
  • Developed test-driven development practices for software reliability
GolangJavaSpring BootOOPSReactAngular
Salary on request
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LK-3474 Lead

Software Engineer

United Kingdom
10 years
Remote
Employee

Re-architected an electric-vehicle charging platform by migrating 11 inter-service integrations from GraphQL to typed gRPC communication. Built fintech platform components for a regulated regional launch, while separately migrating analytical workloads from BigQuery toward PostgreSQL-backed microservices and delivering internal identity management.

  • Developed services with Kubernetes and Docker
  • Worked across Scala-to-Python service migration
  • Built GraphQL APIs for platform operations
  • Implemented payment microservices for card products
GoPythonTypeScriptPerlKubernetesDocker
Available in 1 month Salary on request
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SK-6222 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
7 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Developed scalable backend architectures integrating machine learning models for predictive analytics. Spearheaded Web3 development initiatives focusing on decentralized applications and blockchain technology.

  • Optimized backend systems for high-load environments
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines for rapid deployment
  • Engineered systems programming solutions for performance-critical applications
GooglingBackend DevelopmentDevOpsMachine LearningSystems ProgrammingWeb3 Development
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SU-9065 Principal

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
21 years
Flexible
Employee

Specialized in distributed systems design, delivering fault-tolerant architectures with Golang. Developed high-performance microservices frameworks, optimizing RESTful communications across services. Created scalable, HTTP-based services for enterprise-level applications.

  • Enhanced Java applications with advanced concurrency models
  • Implemented caching strategies to boost system throughput
  • Developed custom load balancers for distributed environments
GolangJavaDistributed SystemsMicroservicesRESTHTTP
Available in 1 month £110k-120k/yr
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SW-4550 Lead

Senior Software Engineer Contractor

United Kingdom
10 years
Remote
Freelancer

Built high-throughput Go services for financial, payment, and social-platform workloads on GCP. Developed real-time abuse detection using Kafka, Go, and Python, plus vector-based photo similarity search on AlloyDB for trust-and-safety moderation.

  • Used Bigtable for low-latency key-value access
  • Deployed infrastructure through Terraform-managed GCP resources
  • Implemented analytics pipelines with BigQuery and dbt
  • Designed reliability practices for Cloud Run services
GoC#BashPythonPHPGCP
Available in 2 weeks $120k-180k/yr
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GB-7400 Lead

Lead Software Engineer

United Kingdom
15 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designed Go services for an EV-charging platform covering authorization, billing, charging analytics, cost calculation, and financial reconciliation. Applied CQRS, transactional outbox, and event sourcing to scale transaction processing tenfold while maintaining 99.99% availability.

  • Built AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Docker
  • Delivered Java distributed systems for fintech workloads
  • Implemented GitHub Actions deployment pipelines
  • Architected public-sector and energy cloud platforms
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Available in 1 month $110k-125k/yr
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AC-6625 Senior

Software Developer

United Kingdom
5 years
Hybrid
Employee

Developed NLP-assisted extraction workflows for securities litigation documents spanning 1,000 cases and documents up to 200 pages. Built a PostgreSQL-backed analyst-report search application, combining keyword retrieval with schemas prepared for vector search.

  • Designed normalized relational schemas for analytical datasets
  • Integrated Bloomberg and CapIQ internal APIs
  • Supported Snowflake administration and data workflows
  • Packaged scrapers and services with Podman and Docker
PythonRSQLPostgreSQLSnowflakeNatural Language Processing
Available in 1 month $50k-75k/yr
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EF-3662 Principal

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
15 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Expert in developing VoIP solutions with SIP and RTP protocols in C/C++. Engineered scalable communication platforms supporting thousands of concurrent connections. Integrated Golang for backend services enhancing protocol handling efficiency.

  • Optimized RTP stack for low-latency audio streaming
  • Designed SIP-based call routing algorithms
  • Enhanced VoIP security features with encryption protocols
GolangCC++VoIPSIPRTP
Available in 2 weeks £80k-120k/yr
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AS-4042 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
8 years
Flexible
Employee

Developed a distributed ledger system leveraging Golang for high-frequency trading applications, optimizing transaction processing with a latency reduction of 20%. Spearheaded the design of a fault-tolerant microservices architecture for a cloud-based healthcare platform, ensuring high availability and scalability. Engineered a real-time analytics pipeline using Kafka and Golang, processing over 10 million events per day for a large-scale e-commerce platform.

  • Integrated Golang with PostgreSQL for scalable database solutions
  • Built a Kubernetes-based orchestration for microservices deployment
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Docker
  • Optimized memory management in high-load C++ applications
GolangJavaKotlinC++PythonPostgreSQL
Available in 2 weeks £90k-120k/yr
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NC-7783 Mid-level

Software Engineer

United Kingdom
4 years
Remote
Employee

Built payment-scheme integrations using Go, ISO 8583 mappings, and real-time authorization flows across UnionPay, Mastercard, Visa, and American Express. Owned Kafka and Debezium transaction pipelines while coordinating a live PostgreSQL 13-to-15 migration across AWS and GCP without data loss.

  • Completed proprietary UnionPay scheme certification
  • Operated PCI DSS payment infrastructure
  • Implemented clearing and settlement workflows
  • Used Protocol Buffers for service contracts
GoPythonSQLPostgreSQLJavaKafka
Available in 1 month £80k-95k/yr
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