Longshot Systems
Longshot Systems
Longshot Systems is a small startup building high-throughput, low-latency trading software and tools for sports betting markets. Its systems process thousands of trading signals each second, where decisions may need to be acted on with minimal delay. The engineering challenges resemble those of high-frequency trading, applied to sports betting. The company works across gaming and fintech.

Engineering Manager, London (Hybrid)

Lead hiring, career progression and engineering operations for Longshot Systems’ sports betting analytics and trading platforms. Partner with the CTO and tech leads to strengthen how the engineering organisation works.

Tavsif

  • Lead people operations and processes across an engineering organisation of around 30–50 people.
  • Manage engineering hiring from funnel design and interviews through candidate assessment and role-specific evaluation.
  • Partner with the Head of Talent to improve hiring efficiency and take part in substantial interviewing.
  • Oversee twice-yearly performance reviews, career progression frameworks and cross-team calibration.
  • Conduct review conversations, recommend compensation and agree promotions with the CTO.
  • Find relevant training and conference opportunities for engineers.
  • Investigate delivery delays and process problems without selecting or prioritising projects.
  • Track the split between maintenance and development work, and report on it with supporting metrics.
  • Evolve engineering processes and standards as the organisation grows.
  • Promote developer experience and assess LLM-based tools hands-on to guide their adoption.
  • Manage cloud spending, SaaS tools, licensing, security processes, joiner and leaver access, and technical onboarding across the company.
  • Hold a regular forum with the CTO and tech leads to discuss hiring, attrition risks, maintenance and development balance, and changes in standards.
  • Work with tech leads while leaving architecture, technical direction and code-level decisions to their technical judgment.

Talablar

  • Bring a software engineering background and the technical credibility to collaborate with experienced senior individual contributors.
  • Have proven experience managing engineers, including performance reviews, career progression and calibration.
  • Have owned high-volume engineering hiring, rather than only participating in it, both before and after LLMs changed candidate assessment.
  • Have worked in engineering organisations of roughly 30–50 people.
  • Be comfortable improving operations without dedicated HR, IT or procurement teams.
  • Bring extensive experience improving processes, standards and delivery in high-performing engineering teams.
  • Be fluent in written and spoken English.
  • Hands-on experience introducing LLM-based developer tools across a team and measuring their impact is a plus.
  • Experience managing cloud costs, SaaS tools and licensing is a plus.
  • Experience owning security processes such as joiner and leaver access management is a plus.

Imtiyozlar

  • Participation in the uncapped company bonus scheme.
  • 10% matched pension contributions.
  • Private healthcare insurance.
  • Long-term illness insurance.
  • Gym membership.
  • Flexible working.
  • Hybrid working, with Thursdays in the London (Farringdon) office and flexibility on the other days.

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