Senior Software Engineer, Prediction Markets Platform
Role in brief
Crypto is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop backend services for a prediction markets platform. Candidates should have strong Go skills and experience in building production systems.
About the role
In this role, you will design and implement backend services that support a prediction markets platform, ensuring high availability and performance. Your responsibilities will include migrating workflows from Python to Go and building robust systems that handle various edge cases, such as cancellations and provider outages.
You will collaborate with multiple teams, including trading and compliance, and play a key role in setting engineering standards. The position offers opportunities for mentorship and leadership in technical decisions, making it ideal for someone with a strong background in backend development.
The salary range for this role is between $98,000 and $162,000, reflecting the seniority and expertise required.
Skills that matter here
- Go: This role primarily involves designing and building backend services using Go.
- Postgres: Deep knowledge of Postgres is crucial for schema design and query performance.
- Distributed Systems: Experience with designing distributed systems is necessary for handling concurrency and failure.
- Python: Previous experience with Python is beneficial for the migration of workflows.
- Kubernetes: Familiarity with Kubernetes is useful for managing containerized applications.
- React: Experience with React and TypeScript is a nice-to-have for potential frontend work.
Who this role suits
- A senior engineer with over 5 years of experience in backend development.
- Someone who is comfortable leading projects and making architectural decisions.
- An individual with strong problem-solving skills, particularly in unclear situations.
- A collaborative team player who enjoys mentoring others and working across time zones.
From the employer
- Own the design of Go backend services that list and settle event contracts around the clock.
- Lead the move of business-critical workflows from Python/Airflow to Go services and durable job processing, without breaking live markets.
- Design pipelines that take in data from multiple providers, match the same event across them, and reconcile differences accurately and idempotently.
- Build settlement logic that holds up when things go wrong, including:
- Late or corrected results
- Cancellations
- Voided markets
- Provider outages
- Race conditions
- Write and review design docs, set engineering standards, and lead technical decisions across teams.
- Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback.
- Take part in on-call, lead incident response, and remove the causes of recurring incidents.
- Work with trading, operations, compliance, and product teams across time zones.
Required
- 5+ years building and running production backend systems, with ownership from design through on-call.
- Strong skills in Go, or deep experience in another backend language plus a clear willingness to work primarily in Go.
- Deep Postgres knowledge, including:
- Schema design
- Migrations
- Query performance
- Transactions
- Isolation levels
- Experience designing distributed systems, including:
- Concurrency
- Idempotency
- Retries
- At-least-once processing
- Failure handling
- A record of leading projects that span teams and making sound architecture trade-offs.
- Clear writing, good judgment, and comfort when requirements are unclear.
Nice to have
- Experience with prediction markets, sportsbooks, exchanges, or sports data feeds, such as OpticOdds, LSports, StatsPerform, or Sportradar.
- Experience with ledgers, payments, settlement, or other systems where money is on the line.
- Redis, Kafka, or Postgres-backed job queues such as River.
- Python and Airflow experience, which would help with the migration.
- React/TypeScript.
- AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD.
- Experience in regulated environments, such as CFTC/DCM, FINRA, or similar.
- Startup or zero-to-one experience.
- Competitive salary
- Attractive annual leave entitlement including: birthday, work anniversary
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Eligible for company-sponsored group health, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance
- Work Flexibility Adoption. Flexi-work hour and hybrid set-up
- Aspire career alternatives through us. Our internal mobility program can offer employees a diverse scope.
Questions about this role
What is the remote policy?
The position is hybrid, allowing for a mix of remote and in-office work.
What is the seniority level of this role?
This is a senior-level position requiring substantial experience in backend development.
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