Software Engineer, Prediction Markets Platform

Team: Engineering

Location: San Francisco, New York, Chicago,IL, California

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

What you’ll do

• Build and run Go backend services that list and settle event contracts around the clock.
• Move existing workflows from Python/Airflow to Go services and durable job processing.
• Build data integrations with sports and market providers, with careful handling of retries, duplicates, and late data.
• Implement settlement rules and edge cases, including corrections, cancellations, and voided markets, with thorough test coverage.
• Contribute to design docs and code reviews, and own features from design through production.
• Build operator tools using React/TypeScript for manual listing, settlement, and approvals.
• Take part in on-call and help debug production issues end to end.

What we’re looking for

Required

• 3–5+ years building production backend services.
• Proficiency in Go, or strong experience in another backend language plus a clear willingness to work primarily in Go.
• Hands-on Postgres experience, including:
  • Schema design
  • Writing efficient queries
  • Transactions
  • Migrations
  • Understanding of concurrency, idempotency, and failure handling in distributed systems.
  • A record of shipping and running services on your own.
  • Clear communication and an interest in growing into technical leadership.

  Nice to have

  • Experience with prediction markets, sportsbooks, exchanges, or sports data feeds.
  • Experience with payments, ledgers, or other money-related systems.
  • Redis, Kafka, or Postgres-backed job queues such as River or similar.
  • Python and Airflow.
  • React/TypeScript.
  • AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD.
  • Startup experience.