Senior Software Engineer, Prediction Markets Platform
Crypto.com2 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreSenior
Base Salary
$200k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design and operation of Go backend services for listing and settling event contracts.
- Migrate business-critical workflows from Python and Airflow to Go services and durable job processing.
- Design provider-data pipelines that match events and reconcile differences accurately and idempotently.
- Build resilient settlement logic for late or corrected results, cancellations, voided markets, provider outages, and race conditions.
- Write and review design documents, set engineering standards, and lead technical decisions across teams.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design feedback.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and eliminate recurring incident causes.
- Collaborate with trading, operations, compliance, and product teams across time zones.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and running production backend systems with ownership from design through on-call.
- Strong Go skills, or deep experience in another backend language with willingness to work primarily in Go.
- Deep Postgres knowledge including schema design, migrations, query performance, transactions, and isolation levels.
- Experience designing distributed systems involving concurrency, idempotency, retries, at-least-once processing, and failure handling.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-team projects and making sound architecture trade-offs.
- Clear writing, good judgment, and comfort working with unclear requirements.
- Preferred experience with prediction markets, sportsbooks, exchanges, sports data feeds, ledgers, payments, settlement, or other systems involving financial risk.
- Preferred familiarity with Redis, Kafka, River, Python, Airflow, React, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, or regulated environments such as CFTC/DCM or FINRA.
- Startup or zero-to-one experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Annual leave entitlement including birthday and work-anniversary leave.
- 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Company-sponsored group health, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance, subject to eligibility and regional requirements.
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid work setup.
- Internal mobility opportunities and career development support.
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About Crypto.com
Crypto.com builds a cryptocurrency exchange and mobile app for retail and institutional customers to buy, sell, and manage digital assets, along with a Visa crypto rewards card, payment services, and a DeFi wallet. Its business model centers on trading fees, card and payments economics, and related financial services. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Singapore, it operates globally and holds the naming rights to Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.