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Senior Backend Engineer (Sports & Prediction Markets) – Golang

Company: Crypto.com
Location: Miami, FL or New York, NY, United States
Salary: $135K–$225K
Type: Full-time, Hybrid

About Crypto.com

Founded in 2016, Crypto.com serves more than 150 million customers and is the world's fastest growing global cryptocurrency platform. Our vision is simple: Cryptocurrency in Every Wallet™. Built on a foundation of security, privacy, and compliance, Crypto.com is committed to accelerating the adoption of cryptocurrency through innovation and empowering the next generation of builders, creators, and entrepreneurs to develop a fairer and more equitable digital ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize robust, highly scalable backend services and distributed systems in Golang to power 24/7 global trading and sports-domain applications
• Develop backend services and operations, including proposing architectural decisions, participating in design reviews, coding, code review, and implementing features
• Act as the technical subject matter expert to increase and embed deep sports domain knowledge into core backend, building features tailored to prediction markets, real-time sports data feeds, and interactive mechanics
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve architectural bottlenecks within large-scale, high-concurrency infrastructure
• Provide high-tier technical operational support to address complex, real-time client issues and maintain flawless systemic availability

Requirements

• Solid mid-to-senior level professional experience specializing in backend system development, with absolute proficiency and production-level mastery
• Proven experience working closely with Sports systems, Sportsbooks, Prediction markets, or high-velocity sports-data infrastructure
• Proficiency in Golang, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka preferred
• Elite interpersonal skills with strong capacity for stakeholder management; comfortable navigating cross-functional, global matrix teams and managing competing project priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep familiarity with transaction-heavy, money-related modules, or payment ledgers
• Advanced expertise in designing complex concurrent systems, race-condition mitigation, and distributed state machines
• Previous professional experience operating smoothly within a rapid, ambiguous, or highly entrepreneurial startup environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Attractive annual leave entitlement including birthday and work anniversary
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Eligible for company-sponsored group health, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance
• Flexible work hours and hybrid or remote setup
• Internal mobility program offering diverse career scope

Culture

• Empowered to think big and try new opportunities while working with a talented, ambitious, and supportive team
• Transformational and proactive working environment that empowers employees to find thoughtful and innovative solutions
• Growth from within with development of new skill-sets impacting personal and professional growth
• Colleagues are some of the best in the industry; all here to help and support one another
• One cohesive team engaged to achieve the ultimate goal: Cryptocurrency in Every Wallet