Senior Backend Engineer (Sports & Prediction Markets) – Golang

About Us

OG.com is a fast-growing, CFTC-regulated Prediction Market platform powered by cutting-edge technology. We’re building an engaging marketplace where users trade on real-world outcomes - from major sports and elections to cultural and financial events. With a sleek mobile-first app and a passionate community, we’re redefining how people interact with news, probabilities, and financial markets.

OG.com runs on the rails of North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (NADEX), a CFTC-regulated exchange operating since 2004 and was acquired by Crypto.com in 2022.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Mid-to-Senior Backend Engineer to spearhead the growth of our 24/7 high-throughput infrastructure, with a particular focus on expanding our core domains into the sports, prediction ecosystem.

This role demands an engineer who thrives within a fast-paced, startup-minded ecosystem, possessing a deep domain understanding of sports platforms / prediction environments, and capable of keeping critical transactional networks running flawlessly around the clock.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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.

REQUIREMENTS

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.
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• $160,000 - $200,000 a year
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• Benefits
• 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 set-up
• Aspire career alternatives through us.
• Our internal mobility program can offer employees a diverse scope.
• Our benefits packages vary depending on region requirements, you can learn more from our talent acquisition team.
• About OG
• OG, a Crypto.com company, offers CFTC-compliant technology to offer access to a federally regulated derivatives platform to trade, engage with others, climb the leaderboard, and where it pays to be right.
• OG provides sports fans and consumers with the opportunity to act on uncertainty, capitalize on the future, and celebrate triumph through a most comprehensive offering of sports and cultural event contracts.
• Make your call now at https://OG.com.
• About Crypto.com
• Founded in 2016, Crypto.com is trusted by millions of users worldwide and is the industry leader in regulatory compliance, security and privacy.
• Our vision is simple: Cryptocurrency in Every Wallet™.
• 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.
• Crypto.com | Derivatives North America (CDNA) is an affiliate of Crypto.com and is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a designated contract market and derivatives clearing organization.
• CDNA offers market access, through various technology services providers and brands, including OG, for the trading of prediction market contracts, as well as economic and cryptocurrency event contracts.
• Margined trading of prediction market contracts is subject to the certification of such products with the CFTC.
• Personal data provided by applicants will be used for recruitment purposes only.
• Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.