Backend engineer in sports trading

Yofy; Lisboa; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Relocation support

In-person Lisbon office

Tax incentives for newcomers

Zusammenfassung

Yofy, based in Lisbon, is seeking a TypeScript backend engineer to own high-throughput services on a real-time odds trading platform. You will design and maintain Node.js services, REST and WebSocket APIs, and pipelines that ingest live odds data from 300+ bookmakers, serving B2B clients with a highly performant, observable system.

The role values autonomy, ownership, and collaboration in a fintech/trading context. Lisbon office on-site with relocation support and competitive base salary.

Qualifikationen

• 2+ years of production backend experience with Node.js/TypeScript.
• Experience designing REST and WebSocket APIs.
• Autonomy with strong ownership and initiative.

Aufgaben

• Design, build and maintain scalable Node.js services and REST/WebSocket APIs.
• Build pipelines that ingest and serve real-time odds data.
• Improve performance and observability across the platform.
• Participate in architecture decisions and code reviews.
• Write clean code and review teammates' code.

Kenntnisse

Backend development

TypeScript

Node.js

REST APIs

WebSocket APIs

High-frequency pipelines

Observability

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

ClickHouse

Jobbeschreibung

Описание

Based in Lisbon, this is a rare chance to join a small, profitable team building real-time odds infrastructure used by the people who trade sport. Their platform pulls live odds from more than 300 bookmakers and serves around 400 B2B clients, from prediction markets like Polymarket to hedge funds, market makers and major European bookmakers. Profitable, 21 people, mostly engineers, and growing every month. They’re looking for a TypeScript backend engineer to own high-throughput services on their trading and risk platform, where milliseconds matter because clients trade on the data.

Задачи

• Design, build and maintain scalable Node.js services and REST/WebSocket APIs
• Build pipelines that ingest, process and serve odds data in real time
• Improve performance, observability and resilience across the platform
• Take part in architecture decisions and design reviews
• Write clean code and review your teammates' code

Требования

• 2+ years of backend development in production
• Strong TypeScript (Node.js)
• Solid experience designing REST and WebSocket APIs
• Autonomy: you take ownership and move without hand-holding
• Будет плюсом: Good command of PostgreSQL
• Redis and ClickHouse are a plus
• Startup background, ideally in fintech, payments, crypto or trading
• Experience with high-frequency pipelines, compression (zstd) or binary formats (MessagePack)
• Honest, direct, no ego
• You ship and never settle for good enough
• An interest in sports, betting or markets (a plus, not a must)

Условия

• €70k to €80k base salary
• Lisbon office, on site, with relocation support
• Around 20% flat income tax for eligible newcomers to Portugal
• Self-hosted infrastructure: real systems work, no cloud vendor in between
• Squads of two that ship every week