Zara Rina Mahmood

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Senior Engineering Manager at Redfern Financial · Real-time systems

Redfern Financial
Edinburgh, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
11+ years experience
University College Dublin
English
Hiring
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Overview

I lead real-time systems at Redfern Financial in Edinburgh. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 4. Most at home with low-latency systems and Go. Coffee nerd.

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Skills
PythonWebSocketsGolow-latency systemsErlang/OTPElixir
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for a backend engineer who has worked on Erlang/OTP at scale

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Contract
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$164k-$211k + equity
Team
Real-time, 10 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with low-latency systems Production experience with Go Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp £80k-£164k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Edinburgh, UK · remote OKelixirgolow-latency systems
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2023 - Present
    Redfern Financial · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Moved 74% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 741ms to 57ms.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 5.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Jul 2019 - Feb 2023
    Monzo · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Moved 74% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Led the migration of 49 services to Python.
  3. Software Engineer
    Nov 2016 - Jun 2019
    Salesforce · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 4.
  4. Software Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
    NatWest · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Moved 75% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped 20 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. University College Dublin
    BSc, Electrical Engineering
    2011 - 2014

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