A New York based Sports Gambling Startup is looking for a backend engineering expert who has experience building out robust APIs and microservices within a Node & Rust environment.
Summary:
- A leading peer-to-peer sports prediction market that recently closed a $6M seed round from top investors and funds.
- Salaries at the top of benchmarks, with significant equity ownership and generous benefits.
- Founders are recent graduates with quantitative experience at major financial firms and years of expertise as sports bettors.
- The US sports betting market is valued at $300B annually and is rapidly growing, especially as operators leverage the sweepstakes business model.
- Traditional retail sportsbooks are currently the primary option for betting, but they have high margins, discriminatory practices, and outdated user experiences.
- Our platform guarantees users the best lines by allowing them to bet directly against friends or the market, rather than the house, making the wagering experience more efficient, fair, and profitable.
What will you do? You will apply state-of-the-art technologies used in modern financial exchanges to ensure transparent and efficient market practices in the future of sports betting. Depending on your familiarity with various components of our tech stack, you may work on optimizations related to infrastructure, data layer, networking, or application logic. Some of your work will be closely tied to frontend product development, ensuring an outstanding user experience.
Responsibilities:
- Build a developer-first API experience for algorithmic trading integrations.
- Scale up real-time data ingestion and distribution pipelines.
- Expand product features by extending modular service logic on top of existing core functionality.
What are we looking for? We value candidates with a strong interest in sports, markets, and technology. You should be passionate about the complexities of computer science and able to contribute to building a robust, scalable sports trading marketplace.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical fields.
- 3+ years of experience developing distributed systems with cloud-based architecture.
- Experience with a system programming language such as Node AND Rust.
- Understanding of trade-offs between technical decisions and business requirements.
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Comfortable working independently and with small teams covering large areas of responsibility.
To find out more or to apply, contact Clayton Smith today!