Staff Software Engineer – Market Maker

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🕒 July 27

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $180.5k - $237.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Sky Betting & Gaming

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1001 - 5000 employees

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gambling • Gaming • B2C

Sky Betting & Gaming is a UK-based consumer-facing betting and online gaming operator. Now part of Flutter UK & Ireland and the wider Flutter Entertainment group, the brand is presented alongside Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars and tombola as a market-leading provider of trusted entertainment to millions of customers. The company emphasizes responsible play, customer experience and uses digital platforms (web and apps) to deliver betting and gaming services, with operational presence in Leeds and registration under Flutter Entertainment plc.

📋 Description

• Own a major domain within the market making pipeline • Build and maintain systems that process high-throughput, low-latency event streams • Partner with Senior Staff engineer and trading team on cross-domain technical decisions • Contribute to the exchange abstraction layer • Build and improve internal Trading UI tooling • Diagnose and respond to production issues in a live trading environment • Proactively identify performance bottlenecks and technical risk • Contribute to team-level engineering standards • Develop genuine fluency in our trading economics

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems in production environments • Strong hands-on proficiency with Java, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, and Postgres • Deep experience with event-driven architecture and async messaging • Demonstrated end-to-end domain ownership • Strong performance instincts • Clear, direct communicator • High risk tolerance for ambiguity and speed. • 3+ years building systems where latency, throughput, and cost efficiency are in constant tension (preferred) • Experience in real-time trading, financial infrastructure, market data platforms, or prediction markets (preferred) • Familiarity with FIX protocol or exchange connectivity patterns (preferred) • Working knowledge of quantitative concepts (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off