Senior Software Engineer (Golang) (Remote then Relocation to Stockholm)

We are currently partnering with an ambitious technology company that is building a next-generation prediction market platform designed as exchange infrastructure rather than a traditional betting product. The business is backed by financially strong shareholders who are investing heavily in both the product and the team, creating a rare opportunity to build without the typical funding constraints of a startup.

The platform is being developed from the ground up and will support:

• Central Limit Order Books (CLOB)

• Real-time market data streaming

• Internal and external market makers

• Institutional-grade APIs

• High-throughput event processing

• Financial settlement and ledger systems

• Operator integrations across multiple jurisdictions

This is a unique opportunity to join at an early stage and play a key role in designing and building the core trading, market, and platform infrastructure alongside a highly experienced engineering team.

The role will initially be remote for the first few weeks to allow for a smooth onboarding process. Following this period, candidates will be expected to relocate to Stockholm and work closely with the team on-site.

The Role

As a Senior Golang Engineer, you will be responsible for building highly scalable backend services and distributed systems that power a real-time trading and market infrastructure platform.

Depending on your experience and interests, you may contribute to areas such as:

Exchange Infrastructure

• Order management systems

• Matching engine components

• Order book services

• Trade execution workflows

• Market state management

Real-Time Systems

• WebSocket streaming infrastructure

• Market data distribution

• Event-driven architectures

• Low-latency notification systems

Financial Systems

• Ledger services

• Wallet and balance management

• Settlement orchestration

• Reconciliation systems

Platform APIs

• Trading APIs

• Market APIs

• Portfolio APIs

• Internal platform services

Scalability & Reliability

• High-throughput distributed systems

• Event sourcing patterns

• Replay and recovery systems

• Observability and operational tooling

Responsibilities

• Design and develop production-grade backend services using Golang

• Build scalable, highly available distributed systems

• Participate in architectural design and technical decision-making

• Develop APIs and event-driven workflows

• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code

• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and production issues

• Drive improvements around scalability, reliability, and developer productivity

• Contribute to engineering best practices and technical standards

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience

• 3+ years of hands-on Golang development experience

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture

• Experience with event-driven systems

• Solid SQL and data modelling skills

• Experience building REST and/or WebSocket APIs

• Experience working within cloud environments (AWS preferred)

• Strong understanding of concurrency, synchronization, and fault-tolerant systems

Nice to Have

Experience in any of the following areas would be highly beneficial:

• Trading platforms

• Financial technology

• Exchanges

• Market data systems

• Payments infrastructure

• Wallet systems

• Risk systems

• Gaming or betting platforms

• High-throughput event processing

• Kafka, NATS, or similar messaging technologies

• Kubernetes

• Redis

• PostgreSQL

What Were Looking For

• Strong ownership and accountability

• Pragmatic engineering mindset

• Curiosity and continuous learning

• Ability to thrive in fast-moving environments

• Passion for building complex systems from first principles

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Focus on simplicity, scalability, and operational excellence

Technology Stack

• Golang

• PostgreSQL

• Redis

• NATS

• AWS

• Docker

• Kubernetes (planned)

• OpenTelemetry

This position offers the opportunity to help shape a greenfield platform tackling complex engineering challenges across real-time trading, distributed systems, and financial infrastructure while working alongside a highly experienced technical team.