Go Backend Engineer – Prediction Markets Platform

Crypto.com; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401(k) plan with employer match

Health insurance

Hybrid work set-up

Job summary

Crypto.com is building a Go-based backend platform to list and settle event contracts on our CFTC-regulated exchange, covering sports, crypto, and real-world events. You will develop Go services, move workflows from Python/Airflow, and create durable job processing with data integrations from providers, plus settlement rules and robust tests.

You will contribute to design docs, code reviews, and own features from design through production.

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.
• Move 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

React/TypeScript

On-call / ownership

AWS

Kubernetes

Redis

Kafka

Go OR other backend language

Tools

River

Redis

Kafka

PostgreSQL migrations

Job description

Crypto.com is building a Go-based backend platform to list and settle event contracts on our CFTC-regulated exchange, covering sports, crypto, and real-world events. You will develop Go services, move workflows from Python/Airflow, and create durable job processing with data integrations from providers, plus settlement rules and robust tests.

You will contribute to design docs, code reviews, and own features from design through production.