Senior Backend Engineer – Sports, Prediction Markets, Golang

Crypto.com

Mid-to-Senior Backend Engineer at Crypto.com enhancing backend systems for sports and prediction markets. Involved in optimizing high-throughput infrastructure and supporting real-time client issues.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeFlorida, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoKafkaPostgresRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, and optimize robust, highly scalable backend services and distributed systems in Golang to power our 24/7 global trading and sports-domain applications.
Develop backend services and operations, including proposing architectural decisions, participating in design reviews, coding, code review, and implementing features.
Act as the technical subject matter expert to increase and embed deep sports domain knowledge into our core backend, building features tailored to prediction markets, real-time sports data feeds, and interactive mechanics.
Identify, diagnose, and resolve architectural bottlenecks within a large-scale, high-concurrency infrastructure.
Operational Support: Provide high-tier technical operational support to address complex, real-time client issues and maintain flawless systemic availability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Solid mid-to-senior level professional experience specializing in backend system development, with an absolute proficiency and production-level mastery.
Proven experience working closely with Sports systems, Sportsbooks, Prediction markets, or high-velocity sports-data infrastructure.
Proficiency in Golang, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka preferred
Communication & Collaboration: Elite interpersonal skills with a strong capacity for stakeholder management; comfortable navigating cross-functional, global matrix teams and managing competing project priorities.
Deep familiarity with transaction-heavy, money-related modules, or payment ledgers (Preferred).
Advanced expertise in designing complex concurrent systems, race-condition mitigation, and distributed state machines (Preferred).
Previous professional experience operating smoothly within a rapid, ambiguous, or highly entrepreneurial startup environment (Preferred).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Attractive annual leave entitlement including: birthday, work anniversary
401(k) plan with employer match
Eligible for company-sponsored group health, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance
Work Flexibility Adoption. Flexi-work hour and hybrid or remote set-up
Aspire career alternatives through us. Our internal mobility program can offer employees a diverse scope.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Golangbackend system developmentPostgresRedisKafkaarchitectural decisionsdesign reviewscode reviewconcurrent systemsdistributed state machines

Soft Skills

interpersonal skillsstakeholder managementcommunicationcollaborationproject prioritization