Senior Backend Engineer, Real-Time Sports Pricing

Hard Rock Digital; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid / remote working environment

Competitive pay and benefits

Global brand

Job summary

Hard Rock Digital is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Quantitative Sports team. You will own major architectural decisions for a low-latency pricing engine powering live odds across millions of users.

In this high-impact role, you will collaborate with quantitative analysts, design ingestion pipelines, and drive platform evolution with a focus on reliability and performance in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
• 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 cross-functional collaboration.

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 closely 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 that support trading, operations, and analytics teams.
• Contribute to technical strategy and long-term platform evolution.
• Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.

Skills

Python

Low-latency

Real-time systems

Multi-feed ingestion

Microservices

AWS

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Snowflake/ClickHouse

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

ClickHouse

Kafka

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

Hard Rock Digital is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Quantitative Sports team. You will own major architectural decisions for a low-latency pricing engine powering live odds across millions of users.

In this high-impact role, you will collaborate with quantitative analysts, design ingestion pipelines, and drive platform evolution with a focus on reliability and performance in a fast-paced environment.