Senior Software Engineer, Exchange

🕒 May 20

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Underdog Fantasy

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201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

Gaming • Sports • B2C

Underdog Fantasy is a company specializing in fantasy sports and sports betting. Despite the technical issue mentioned in the text, it provides a platform where users can engage in fantasy sports contests, draft teams, and potentially win prizes based on the performance of real-world athletes. The company's focus is on providing a fun and competitive experience for sports fans who want to test their skills and luck in fantasy leagues and sports-related betting.

📋 Description

• Build and scale core exchange infrastructure - order matching, trade execution algorithms, and the data structures that underpin them • Build APIs and data feeds that clients depend on - REST, FIX, WebSockets - and make them fast and reliable • Design robust clearing infrastructure, position management, margining, and how money actually moves. • Drive technical relationships with our customers (market makers, traders, etc.) • Hunt down performance bottlenecks - in databases, internal services, and anywhere latency is costing us • Put systems under pressure before production does - rigorous testing of the things that can't go down • Help invent what prediction market structure looks like beyond what exists today - new contract types, new mechanics, etc. • Move fast, make calls, and own the outcome - we give real autonomy, which means real accountability.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5+ years of engineering experience, with a track record on high-performance, low-latency systems • Strong command of highly performant programming languages (C, Rust, C++, Go, Java, or similar) and the willingness and desire to flex into others. • You are product minded and scope well, you make good tradeoffs, and don't need hand-holding. • Demonstrable experience thriving in fast-paced and ambiguous environments, where high-agency and ambition go hand-in-hand. • Experience in TradeFi, prediction markets, crypto exchange infrastructure or SOR.

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO for full-time employees (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season) • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave • Home office stipend • A connected virtual-first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce • 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents