Senior Software Engineer, Backend

What you’ll do

• Own backend services end to end for prediction markets, from market creation and discovery through trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payout.
• Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for a real-time financial product used by millions of people.
• Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response for systems serving millions of users.
• Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most.
• Mentor engineers across the team and partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Institutional Markets, and Compliance to turn product and technical vision into roadmap.

Required skills and experience

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems
• Deep proficiency in backend languages (Go, Ruby, Python, or Java) with hands-on experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-availability systems
• Track record of delivering projects end-to-end, including scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration
• Experience building systems in a regulated or financial environment where correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance are critical
• Proven ability to partner across engineering, product, and business teams to translate ambiguous product requirements into well-scoped technical solutions
• High attention to detail and strong product taste. You care deeply about the quality of the end-user experience you're building.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.