Senior Backend Engineer – Quantitative Sports
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Senior Backend Engineer building low-latency, high-throughput pricing systems for Hard Rock Digital’s online sportsbook. Integrating quantitative models, live data feeds, and real-time backend services.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and build backend services that operate reliably under intense data and user load
- Reduce system latency and optimize real-time performance across the pricing pipeline
- Collaborate with quantitative developers to integrate models and pricing logic
- Design and maintain ingestion pipelines for multiple live data feeds
- Implement robust testing and monitoring to ensure system resilience
- Build internal tools supporting trading, operations, and analytics teams
- Contribute to technical strategy and long-term platform evolution
- Foster knowledge sharing and engineering excellence
- Own major architectural decisions and shape the core backend powering the sportsbook pricing engine
Requirements:
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience
- Deep proficiency in Python for production systems
- Experience with low-latency, real-time, or high-throughput systems
- Background in multi-feed ingestion architectures
- Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems
- Experience deploying and operating systems in AWS
- Familiarity with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
- Experience with analytical stores (Snowflake, ClickHouse)
- Strong knowledge of messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally
- Self-driven and comfortable owning large areas of the system
- Meticulous approach to testing, reliability, and performance
- Ability to prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with pricing engines, trading algorithms, or live odds generation (bonus)
- Interest in sports and sport analytics (bonus)
- Familiarity with game state feeds such as Radar & Genius (bonus)
- Prior hands-on experience in sportsbook platforms (highly desirable)
Benefits:
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Flexible vacation allowance
- A hybrid / remote working environment
- Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand
- Diverse and inclusive work environment
- Equal opportunity employer
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