Senior Backend Engineer (Sports & Prediction Markets) – Golang

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Crypto.com, you'll spearhead the growth of our 24/7 high-throughput infrastructure with a focus on sports and prediction markets. You'll join a team that demands deep domain understanding of sports platforms and prediction environments, keeping critical transactional networks running flawlessly around the clock.

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 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
• Provide high-tier technical operational support to address complex, real-time client issues and maintain flawless systemic availability

What you bring

• Mid-to-senior level professional experience specializing in backend system development with production-level mastery in Golang
• Proven experience working closely with sports systems, sportsbooks, prediction markets, or high-velocity sports-data infrastructure
• Proficiency in Postgres, Redis, and Kafka
• Elite interpersonal skills with a strong capacity for stakeholder management, comfortable navigating cross-functional, global teams and managing competing project priorities

Nice to have

• 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

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Attractive annual leave entitlement including birthday and work anniversary leave
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Eligible for company-sponsored group health, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance
• Flexible work hours and hybrid setup
• Internal mobility program offering diverse career alternatives

About Crypto.com

Founded in 2016, Crypto.com serves more than 150 million customers and is the world's fastest growing global cryptocurrency platform. 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.