Software Engineer, Prediction Markets Platform
About The Position
The Software Engineer will help build and operate the platform that lists and settles event contracts on Crypto.com's CFTC-regulated exchange, covering sports, cryptocurrency, and other real-world events. The platform ingests data from sports and market providers, turns events into tradable contracts, and settles contracts after events conclude, with correctness and auditability as important as speed. The team is moving the platform from Python and Airflow to Go services built around Postgres. The role involves developing and running backend services and durable job processing, building provider integrations, implementing settlement rules, and creating operator tools. The engineer will contribute to design documents and code reviews, own features from design through production, and participate in on-call and production debugging.
Requirements
- 3–5+ years of experience building production backend services.
- Proficiency in Go, or strong experience in another backend language combined with a clear willingness to work primarily in Go.
- Hands-on Postgres experience, including schema design, efficient queries, transactions, and migrations.
- Understanding of concurrency, idempotency, and failure handling in distributed systems.
- A record of shipping and running services independently.
- Clear communication skills and an interest in growing into technical leadership.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with prediction markets, sportsbooks, exchanges, or sports data feeds.
- Experience with payments, ledgers, or other money-related systems.
- Experience with Redis, Kafka, or Postgres-backed job queues such as River or similar.
- Experience with Python and Airflow.
- Experience with React/TypeScript.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD.
- Startup experience.
Responsibilities
- Build and run Go backend services that list and settle event contracts around the clock.
- Move existing workflows from Python and Airflow to Go services and durable job processing.
- Build integrations with sports and market providers, handling retries, duplicates, and late data carefully.
- Implement settlement rules and edge cases, including corrections, cancellations, and voided markets, with thorough test coverage.
- Contribute to design documents and code reviews, and own features from design through production.
- Build operator tools using React/TypeScript for manual listing, settlement, and approvals.
- Participate in on-call and help debug production issues end to end.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Attractive annual leave entitlement, including birthday and work anniversary leave.
- 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Eligible for company-sponsored group health, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance.
- Flexible work hours and hybrid setup.
- Internal mobility program offering employees opportunities to take on a new scope.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
