Principal - Senior Staff Backend Engineer

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $200k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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ProphetX

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

🎲 Gambling

🏪 Marketplace

⚽ Sports

Gambling • Marketplace • Sports

ProphetX is a consumer-facing sports prediction market and betting exchange platform branded as "America's First Sports Prediction Market. " It operates a secondary marketplace where users can buy and sell prediction positions, providing liquidity and market-driven pricing for sports bets with a particular emphasis on football betting. The platform combines elements of sports betting, an exchange-style marketplace, and prediction-market mechanics to enable peer-to-peer wagering.

📋 Description

• Define the long-term technical strategy and architecture for the exchange platform, aligned to business and regulatory goals. • Lead company-level technical initiatives with ambiguous scope and significant business risk or opportunity. • Drive critical decisions on scalability, resilience, and security for systems operating in a CFTC-regulated environment. • Evaluate and introduce new technologies, build-versus-buy choices, and engineering practices at an organizational level. • Advise executive and product leadership on technical feasibility, risk, and investment. • Mentor staff and senior engineers, and help shape hiring, leveling, and engineering culture. • Represent ProphetX’s engineering depth with partners, regulators, and the broader technical community where appropriate. • Partner with product and leadership to influence roadmap and prioritization with technical insight. • Proactively seek development opportunities and share knowledge with peers and junior engineers.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of backend and distributed systems experience, including a track record of org- or company-wide technical impact • Expert-level command of Go, Java, C++, or Python, and of large-scale system design • Proven experience architecting and evolving mission-critical, low-latency, high-availability platforms (exchange, trading, payments, or comparable) • Mastery of event-driven architecture, real-time APIs, data systems, and cloud-native infrastructure • Deep experience with reliability, security, and compliance in regulated environments • History of mentoring and growing senior and staff engineers • Exceptional communication and influence skills, from engineers to executives • Proactive, growth-focused, and highly adaptable with a strong sense of ownership • Prediction markets, fintech, sports betting, or exchange experience is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned to role and market • Equity opportunities so you share in what we’re building • A clear connection between impact and reward • Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Flexible time off built on trust and accountability • A culture that respects your time and avoids unnecessary meetings • Fully remote within the U.S. • Flexibility to work in the way that helps you do your best work