Senior Backend Engineer - Quantitative Sports
Hard Rock Digital, LLC13 days ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and build backend services for a low-latency, high-throughput pricing engine.
- Reduce system latency and optimize real-time performance across the pricing pipeline.
- Collaborate with quantitative developers to integrate models and pricing logic.
- Design and maintain ingestion pipelines for multiple live data feeds.
- Implement testing and monitoring to improve system resilience.
- Build internal tools for trading, operations, and analytics teams.
- Contribute to technical strategy and long-term platform evolution.
- Promote knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Deep proficiency in Python for production systems.
- Experience with low-latency, real-time, or high-throughput systems.
- Background in multi-feed ingestion architectures.
- Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems.
- Experience deploying and operating systems in AWS.
- Familiarity with relational databases including Postgres and MySQL.
- Experience with analytical stores including Snowflake and ClickHouse.
- Strong knowledge of messaging systems including Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally.
- Preferred experience with pricing engines, trading algorithms, live odds generation, sportsbook platforms, or sports analytics.
- Familiarity with Radar and Genius game-state feeds.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits.
- Flexible vacation allowance.
- Hybrid or remote working environment.
- Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand.
- Diverse and inclusive equal-opportunity workplace.
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