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Senior Backend Engineer (Sports & Prediction Markets) – Golang

Reposted One Month Ago
Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in United States
160K-200K Annually
Senior level
Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in United States
160K-200K Annually
Senior level
Design, build, and optimize high-throughput, highly available backend services in Golang for 24/7 sports and prediction-market applications. Lead architecture decisions, implement features, diagnose and resolve high-concurrency bottlenecks, and provide high-tier operational support for real-time transactional systems.
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About Us
 
OG.com is a fast-growing, CFTC-regulated Prediction Market platform powered by cutting-edge technology. We’re building an engaging marketplace where users trade on real-world outcomes - from major sports and elections to cultural and financial events. With a sleek mobile-first app and a passionate community, we’re redefining how people interact with news, probabilities, and financial markets. OG.com runs on the rails of North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (NADEX), a CFTC-regulated exchange operating since 2004 and was acquired by Crypto.com in 2022.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a highly skilled Mid-to-Senior Backend Engineer to spearhead the growth of our 24/7 high-throughput infrastructure, with a particular focus on expanding our core domains into the sports, prediction ecosystem.
This role demands an engineer who thrives within a fast-paced, startup-minded ecosystem, possessing a deep domain understanding of sports platforms / prediction environments, and capable of keeping critical transactional networks running flawlessly around the clock.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Design, develop, and optimize robust, highly scalable backend services and distributed systems in Golang to power our 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 our core backend, building features tailored to prediction markets, real-time sports data feeds, and interactive mechanics.
  • Identify, diagnose, and resolve architectural bottlenecks within a large-scale, high-concurrency infrastructure
  • Operational Support: Provide high-tier technical operational support to address complex, real-time client issues and maintain flawless systemic availability.

REQUIREMENTS

    Minimum Qualifications (Must-Haves):
  • Solid mid-to-senior level professional experience specializing in backend system development, with an 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
  • Communication & Collaboration: Elite interpersonal skills with a strong capacity for stakeholder management; comfortable navigating cross-functional, global matrix teams and managing competing project priorities.

  • Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves / Ideal Fits):
  • 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, 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.
 
Our benefits packages vary depending on region requirements, you can learn more from our talent acquisition team.
 
About OG
 
OG, a Crypto.com company, offers CFTC-compliant technology to offer access to a federally regulated derivatives platform to trade, engage with others, climb the leaderboard, and where it pays to be right. OG provides sports fans and consumers with the opportunity to act on uncertainty, capitalize on the future, and celebrate triumph through a most comprehensive offering of sports and cultural event contracts.
Make your call now at https://OG.com. 

About Crypto.com
 
Founded in 2016, Crypto.com is trusted by millions of users worldwide and is the industry leader in regulatory compliance, security and privacy. Our vision is simple: Cryptocurrency in Every Wallet™. 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. 
Crypto.com | Derivatives North America (CDNA) is an affiliate of Crypto.com and is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a designated contract market and derivatives clearing organization. CDNA offers market access, through various technology services providers and brands, including OG, for the trading of prediction market contracts, as well as economic and cryptocurrency event contracts. Margined trading of prediction market contracts is subject to the certification of such products with the CFTC. 

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