Software Engineer, Prediction Markets Platform
Required skills
- production backend services
- Go
- Postgres
- schema design
- efficient queries
- transactions
- migrations
- concurrency
- idempotency
- failure handling
Nice to have
- prediction markets
- sportsbooks
- exchanges
- sports data feeds
- payments
- ledgers
Role summary
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Prediction Markets Platform team. You will be responsible for building and running Go backend services that handle the listing and settlement of event contracts on our CFTC-regulated exchange. This includes migrating existing Python/Airflow workflows to Go, developing data integrations, implementing complex settlement logic, and creating operator tools. The role requires 3-5+ years of experience in production backend services, proficiency in Go (or willingness to learn), and hands-on experience with Postgres. Understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and failure handling is crucial. Experience with prediction markets, exchanges, or related financial systems is a plus.
About the team
We build the platform that lists and settles event contracts on our CFTC-regulated exchange. That covers sports, crypto, and other real-world events.
Our systems take in data from several sports and market providers, turn each event into tradeable contracts, and settle them correctly once the event ends. Settlement moves real money, so correctness and auditability matter as much as speed.
We are moving the platform from Python and Airflow to Go services built around Postgres, and you’ll help build it.
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.
- 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.
Nice to have
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