About The Position
Our client is a fast-growing, venture-backed gaming startup operating at the intersection of real-money gaming and the creator economy. With a core product already in market and generating significant revenue, they're expanding their engineering team to meet demand and build out the next generation of features. This is a high-stakes, high-impact opportunity to work on a social casino product used by thousands of players around the clock. The founding team is composed of seasoned entrepreneurs and engineers with backgrounds in crypto, gaming, and consumer tech — and they’re backed by top-tier investors. This is not your average backend engineering role. You’ll join a small, elite team building infrastructure that must perform at scale and handle real-money transactions with zero room for error. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic builder who enjoys solving hard backend problems, thrives in high-trust environments, and wants to own critical parts of a fast-moving system. You’ll work across a variety of areas — from scaling APIs and architecting new features to integrating gaming vendors and optimizing database performance. No red tape, just great engineering and high-impact work.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Proficiency in any modern backend language (e.g., TypeScript, Go, Java, Python, Rust).
- Solid experience with SQL and relational databases — you should be comfortable writing raw queries and understanding database internals.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and fundamentals of networking, caching, and scaling systems under heavy load.
- Strong grasp of API design, web protocols (HTTP, REST), and common web security standards (JWT, cookies, etc.).
- Git/GitHub fluency and confidence working in a terminal-based dev environment.
- Self-starter mindset — you don’t need handholding to make progress.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with: TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes.
- Background in real-money gaming, gambling, or crypto (especially at product-focused companies like Coinbase, Kraken, etc.).
- Degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field — or equivalent experience backed by strong signals (e.g. brand-name startups, standout technical interviews).
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services, APIs, and integrations with third-party vendors.
- Tackle high-throughput challenges related to concurrency, state, and scale.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers and DevOps to deliver end-to-end product features.
- Write performant, raw SQL queries (no ORMs used here) and reason deeply about data models.
- Help shape the technical direction of the product and infrastructure.
- Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions.
- Work remotely with autonomy — only one required daily meeting (9:30am ET standup).
Benefits
- Equity
- Remote-first and flexible work environment
- Greenfield opportunities to shape architecture, tooling, and process from the ground up
- Opportunity to work with top-tier backers and a product with market traction
- Work with a founding team of capable operators with prior startup successes
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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