Senior Backend Engineer (Sports & Prediction Markets)
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Overview
Join Crypto.com as a Senior Backend Engineer focusing on sports and prediction markets. Work in a fast-paced environment to enhance our high-throughput infrastructure. Founded in 2016, Crypto.com serves more than 150 million customers and is the world's fastest growing global cryptocurrency platform. Our vision is simple: Cryptocurrency in Every Wallet™. Built on a foundation of security, privacy, and compliance, Crypto.com is committed to accelerating the adoption of cryptocurrency through innovation and empowering the next generation of builders, creators, and entrepreneurs to develop a fairer and more equitable digital ecosystem.
What you'll do
- •Design, develop, and optimize robust, highly scalable backend services and distributed systems in Golang to power our 24/7 global trading and sports-domain applications.
- •Develop backend services and operations, including proposing architectural decisions, participating in design reviews, coding, code review, and implementing features.
- •Act as the technical subject matter expert to increase and embed deep sports domain knowledge into our core backend, building features tailored to prediction markets, real-time sports data feeds, and interactive mechanics.
- •Identify, diagnose, and resolve architectural bottlenecks within a large-scale, high-concurrency infrastructure.
- •Operational Support: Provide high-tier technical operational support to address complex, real-time client issues and maintain flawless systemic availability.
Conditions
- •Competitive salary
- •Attractive annual leave entitlement including: birthday, work anniversary
- •401(k) plan with employer match
- •Eligible for company-sponsored group health, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance
- •Work Flexibility Adoption. Flexi-work hour and hybrid or remote set-up
- •Aspire career alternatives through us. Our internal mobility program can offer employees a diverse scope.
Minimum Qualifications (Must-Haves)
- •Solid mid-to-senior level professional experience specializing in backend system development, with an absolute proficiency and production-level mastery.
- •Proven experience working closely with Sports systems, Sportsbooks, Prediction markets, or high-velocity sports-data infrastructure.
- •Proficiency in Golang, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka preferred.
- •Communication & Collaboration: Elite interpersonal skills with a strong capacity for stakeholder management; comfortable navigating cross-functional, global matrix teams and managing competing project priorities.
Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves / Ideal Fits)
- •Deep familiarity with transaction-heavy, money-related modules, or payment ledgers.
- •Advanced expertise in designing complex concurrent systems, race-condition mitigation, and distributed state machines.
- •Previous professional experience operating smoothly within a rapid, ambiguous, or highly entrepreneurial startup environment.