Go Backend Engineer — Prediction Markets & Real-Time Settlement

Crypto.com; California; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual leave entitlement incl birthday

401(k) plan with employer match

Group health, dental, vision, and life

Hybrid set-up

Internal mobility program

Job summary

Crypto.com is building a Go-based backend platform to list and settle event contracts on a CFTC-regulated exchange. You’ll migrate Python/Airflow workflows to Go, design durable data pipelines, and implement settlement rules with strong test coverage.

You will also build operator tools in React/TypeScript and participate in on-call, tracing production issues end to end, with opportunities to grow into technical leadership within a collaborative, global fintech team.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years building production backend services.
• Go proficiency or willingness to switch to Go.
• Hands-on Postgres: schema design, queries, transactions, migrations.
• Understanding of concurrency, idempotency, and failure handling.
• Track record shipping and running services independently.
• Clear communication and interest in technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build and run Go backend services that list and settle contracts.
• Move Python/Airflow workflows to Go and durable job processing.
• Integrate sports/market data with robust retry handling.
• Implement settlement rules with tests and edge cases.
• Contribute to design docs, code reviews, and ownership from design to prod.
• Build React/TypeScript tools for listing, settlement, and approvals.
• Participate in on-call and triage production issues end to end.

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Concurrency

REST APIs

Code reviews

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Crypto.com is building a Go-based backend platform to list and settle event contracts on a CFTC-regulated exchange. You’ll migrate Python/Airflow workflows to Go, design durable data pipelines, and implement settlement rules with strong test coverage.

You will also build operator tools in React/TypeScript and participate in on-call, tracing production issues end to end, with opportunities to grow into technical leadership within a collaborative, global fintech team.