Venture Up

About the Company

Venture Up is more than just another tech recruiter. By matching exceptional tech talent with ambitious technology ventures, we power your growth. Whether you’re looking to step up your career or build up your tech, design or product team, Venture Up’s expertise in technology recruitment will create the connections you need to grow your business.

We combine our expertise with two things we love: building companies and helping people get awesome jobs. Let us help you move up and venture out to achieve your goals.

Whether you’re a company disrupting the tech space, a vibrant growing business or one of the talented people that work there; you give us a reason to come to work every day. This is our passion, and because of this we have a constant commitment to the best quality of service, combined with an approach underpinned by transparency, honesty, and a genuine consultative service.


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Listed Jobs

Company Name

Venture Up

Job Title

Golang Software Engineer

Job Description

Golang Software Backend Engineer
Fully Remote/UK Working Hours

A couple of Golang Software Backend Engineers are required for an exciting and innovative Software house company based in London and Hong Kong. The company operates at the forefront of sports, entertainment, and cryptocurrency, and they are growing rapidly. The successful Software Backend Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining company’s complex backend systems, working closely with other engineers to design and implement efficient and reliable solutions that deliver exceptional user experiences. But more than that, they are seeking a results-oriented individual who is eager to coach and mentor team members, helping them grow both professionally and personally.

Their development team uses various different programming languages with a particular focus on Golang but they are looking primarily for strong software developers first and experiences of technologies second. The company is made up of some of the very best software developers and mathematicians. Each brings their unique perspective from their backgrounds in computer science, physics, mathematics, statistics and engineering.

Essential Skills

5-7 years commercial experience in software engineering.
Demonstrable experience building high-quality and scalable digital products and features.
Strong project management and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.
Ability to confidently make technical decisions in the best interests of users and the business.
Strong knowledge and hands-on experience of designing well defined interfaces, we’re using gRPC, protocol buffers, RESTful JSON and GraphQL.
Strong knowledge and hands-on experience of microservice architectures, best practices and patterns.
Hands-on experience with caching, they are primarily using Redis and Object storage buckets.
Hands-on experience with relational databases such as SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Hands-on experience with lean DevOps, including containerized services managed with Kubernetes and managed serverless environments like Lambdas, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Run.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, we’re using Google Cloud Build and Github Actions.
Fluency in English (verbal and written).

Join an exciting company with many opportunities to progress your Golang functional programming career. Send your CV for immediately review and further details.

Senior Golang Backend Engineer
Fully Remote/UK Working Hours

London, United Kingdom

Remote

04-04-2025

Company Name

Venture Up

Job Title

Quantitative Developer

Job Description

Senior Python Quantitative Software Developer – London

*Please note this role cannot sponsor. Please do not apply if you are seeking sponsorship*

A couple of Senior Python Quantitative Software Developers are required for an exciting and innovative Software sports betting company based in London. The successful candidates will be working closely with the quantitative researchers and alongside other extremely talented and driven engineers to build and support systematic trading models. An interest in functional programming and its application in the real world would be useful. The roles would suit candidates with 5+ years experience and significant part of childhood spent hacking away in 8-bit assembly language. You will be joining a tight-knit team of research mathematicians, computer scientists and trading analysts at the top of their chosen fields.

Essential Skills

At least 5 years of software development experience, with a proven ability to work independently and innovate.
Proficiency in Python, particularly for numerical computing and machine learning
Particularly numpy, pandas (both must haves)
Good working knowledge of a fast language such as C / C++ / Rust.
Understanding of production-level system design and architecture.
Proficiency in SQL, working with structured data stored in psql databases and optimizing queries.
Experience working in environments where the speed of development is prioritised over formal processes.
An eagerness to collaborate with a diverse team of brilliant minds, contributing your own unique insights.
A self-starter attitude, with the confidence to take ownership of projects and experiment with new ideas.

Tech Stack

You’ll have the freedom to choose the tools and technologies that fit each problem best, but here’s a snapshot of what the company currently uses:

Python 3.10+ for most of their development.
C and Go for high-performance systems where needed.
Linux servers.
PostgreSQL for data storage.
ZeroMQ and RabbitMQ for backend communication.
Basic web front ends for internal tools.

Benefits:

Working alongside other extremely talented and driven engineers
Extremely lucrative salary, bonus up to 30% and benefits
Greenfield Python work, both challenging and rewarding

Send your CV for immediately review and further details.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

03-04-2025

Company Name

Venture Up

Job Title

Senior Quantitative Developer

Job Description

Senior Quantitative Developer – Sports betting Hedge fund – London

Skills: Python stack (numpy, pandas etc.), R, TensorFlow.

*Please note this role cannot sponsor. Please do not apply if you are seeking sponsorship*

Job Summary
Senior Quantitative Developer is required for one of the leading providers of sports betting brokerage software in the world. The successful candidate will be joining the team who is responsible for developing and managing a range of football models and algorithms that run at the heart of the bet-placement platform. You will be part of a small team, working in a relaxed environment, and using a range of modern open-source tools like Jupyter, PyTorch and Spark.

You will be managing a team of 2 quants and 1 data analyst but its fundamentally a hands on role where you and everyone has their sleeves rolled up together. You will be developing statistical models to compute the probabilities of outcomes in football. Sports modelling is their core expertise, and the company is structuring the company around creating the best possible technical and cultural environment to enable you to rapidly explore and test alternative models. Modelling and predicting football outcomes are a uniquely challenging field, and you will have plenty of opportunities to use your experience, judgement and imagination to solve difficult problems.

As Quantitative Researcher you will need:

Degree in Computer Science, Maths or similar STEM discipline
5+years experience in coding
Electronic Trading Experience
Experience in software design and development using Python, Pandas and SQL / NoSQL, TensorFlow
Kaggle profile (or other practical statistical experience)

The Opportunity

Working in GLMs, BMMs, Kalman filters, MCMC and the TrueSkill Ranking system
Working with some of the brightest Quants within the industry.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

08-04-2025

Company Name

Venture Up

Job Title

Senior Python Developer

Job Description

Senior Python Software Developer – London

*Please note this role cannot sponsor. Please do not apply if you are seeking sponsorship*

A couple of Senior Python Software Developers are required for an exciting and innovative Software sports betting company based in London. The successful candidates will be working closely with the quantitative researchers and alongside other extremely talented and driven engineers to build and support systematic trading models. An interest in functional programming and its application in the real world would be useful. The roles would suit candidates with 5+ years experience and significant part of childhood spent hacking away in 8-bit assembly language. You will be joining a tight-knit team of research mathematicians, computer scientists and trading analysts at the top of their chosen fields.

Essential Skills

At least 5 years of software development experience, with a proven ability to work independently and innovate.
A passion for creative problem-solving and a willingness to fail fast to find the best solution.
Experience working in environments where the speed of development is prioritised over formal processes.
An eagerness to collaborate with a diverse team of brilliant minds, contributing your own unique insights.
A self-starter attitude, with the confidence to take ownership of projects and experiment with new ideas.

Tech Stack

You’ll have the freedom to choose the tools and technologies that fit each problem best, but here’s a snapshot of what the company currently uses:

Python 3.10+ for most of their development.
C and Go for high-performance systems where needed.
Linux servers.
PostgreSQL for data storage.
ZeroMQ and RabbitMQ for backend communication.
Basic web front ends for internal tools.

Benefits:

Working alongside other extremely talented and driven engineers
Extremely lucrative salary, bonus up to 30% and benefits
Greenfield Python work, both challenging and rewarding

Send your CV for immediately review and further details.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

10-04-2025