Go Backend Engineer — Prediction Markets Platform

Crypto.com; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual leave entitlement

401(k) with employer match

Health, dental, vision, and life/dis/ 

Hybrid set-up

Internal mobility program

Job summary

Crypto.com in Chicago seeks a hands-on backend engineer to help build and settle event contracts on Go-based services, moving from Python/Airflow and integrating with Postgres. You will implement durable workflows, data integrations, and robust settlement logic while contributing to design discussions and code reviews.

You will own features end-to-end, participate in on-call duties, and collaborate with front-end tools built with React/TypeScript for operations and approvals in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years building production backend services.
• Proficiency in Go, or strong experience in another backend language plus a clear willingness to work primarily in Go.
• Hands-on Postgres experience, including schema design, writing efficient queries, transactions, migrations.
• Understanding of concurrency, idempotency, and failure handling in distributed systems.
• A record of shipping and running services on your own.
• Clear communication and an interest in growing into technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build and run Go backend services that list and settle event contracts around the clock.
• Migrate existing workflows from Python/Airflow to Go services and durable job processing.
• Build data integrations with sports and market providers with careful handling of retries, duplicates, and late data.
• Implement settlement rules and edge cases, including corrections, cancellations, and voided markets, with thorough test coverage.
• Contribute to design docs and code reviews, and own features from design through production.
• Build operator tools using React/TypeScript for manual listing, settlement, and approvals.
• Take part in on-call and help debug production issues end to end.

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Code reviews

Ownership

Tools

River

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

React/TypeScript

Job description

Crypto.com in Chicago seeks a hands-on backend engineer to help build and settle event contracts on Go-based services, moving from Python/Airflow and integrating with Postgres. You will implement durable workflows, data integrations, and robust settlement logic while contributing to design discussions and code reviews.

You will own features end-to-end, participate in on-call duties, and collaborate with front-end tools built with React/TypeScript for operations and approvals in a fast-paced