Senior Backend Engineer

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🕒 October 22

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $130k - $180k / 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

• Take end-to-end ownership of complex backend systems from design through production • Lead the design and implementation of multiple large projects within one team, with production-level ownership • Translate product requirements into detailed engineering tasks and act as the translation layer between product and engineering • Monitor product health proactively and drive resolution of functional and performance issues • Contribute to the evolution of key systems and frameworks, balancing innovation with reliability • Set and uphold best practices in software development across the workstream • Identify opportunities to improve processes and technologies and drive their adoption • Collaborate with offshore and globally distributed engineering teams • Analyze complex problems and break them into manageable workstreams for junior engineers • Proactively seek development opportunities and share knowledge with peers and junior engineers • Serve as a technical anchor for the team and manage delivery across smaller teams

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on backend experience in Go, Java, C++, or Python, with deep Go ecosystem knowledge preferred • 2+ years building on AWS or equivalent cloud platforms (GCP, Azure) • Proven experience building highly scalable, real-time systems in a production environment • Strong command of microservices architecture, including design patterns and best practices • Experience with event-driven and asynchronous system design, including technologies like Kafka • Expertise designing RESTful and WebSocket APIs • In-depth knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases • Working knowledge of containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling • Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, Datadog, or Kibana • Proficiency with Git or equivalent version control • Experience with testing frameworks and writing unit tests • Strong communicator, able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences • Proactive, growth-focused, and highly adaptable with a strong sense of ownership

🏖️ 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

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