Senior Backend Engineer – Quantitative Sports

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Senior Backend Engineer at Hard Rock Digital building the next generation of their pricing engine. Collaborating with quantitative analysts to drive the sportsbook backend architecture.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeRemote • Florida • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsKafkaMicroservicesMySQLPostgresPythonRabbitMQ

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect and build backend services that operate reliably under intense data and user load
Reduce system latency and optimize real‑time performance across the pricing pipeline
Collaborate closely with quantitative developers to integrate models and pricing logic
Design and maintain ingestion pipelines for multiple live data feeds
Implement robust testing and monitoring to ensure system resilience
Build internal tools that support trading, operations, and analytics teams
Contribute to technical strategy and long‑term platform evolution
Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and engineering excellence

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of backend engineering experience
Deep proficiency in Python for production systems
Experience with low latency, real time, or high throughput systems
Background in multi feed ingestion architectures
Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems
Experience deploying and operating systems in AWS
Familiarity with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
Experience with analytical stores (Snowflake, ClickHouse)
Strong knowledge of messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive pay and benefits
Flexible vacation allowance
A hybrid / remote working environment
Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythonlow latency systemsreal time systemshigh throughput systemsmulti feed ingestion architecturesmicroservicesdistributed systemsAWSrelational databasesmessaging systems

Soft Skills

collaborationknowledge sharingengineering excellence