Senior Backend Engineer (Sports & Prediction Markets) – Golang

As a Mid-to-Senior Backend Engineer at Crypto.com, you spearhead the growth of our 24/7 high-throughput infrastructure, with a particular focus on expanding into sports and prediction markets. You bring deep domain understanding of sports platforms and prediction environments, and you excel at 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 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
• Proven experience working closely with sports systems, sportsbooks, prediction markets, or high-velocity sports-data infrastructure
• Proficiency in Golang, 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
• Professional experience in 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
• Company-sponsored group health, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance
• Flexible work hours and hybrid setup
• Internal mobility program for career development opportunities

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.