Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time Sports Pricing

Hard Rock Digital; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hard Rock Digital is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Quantitative Sports team to help build the next-gen pricing engine delivering low-latency, high-throughput live odds for millions of users.

You’ll own architectural decisions, partner with quantitative analysts, design ingestion pipelines, implement tests, and contribute to the platform’s evolution while fostering knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services for high-load, low-latency systems.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and scalable design.
• Collaborative product development with cross-functional teams.

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

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Real-time data processing

Low latency

Job description

Hard Rock Digital is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Quantitative Sports team to help build the next-gen pricing engine delivering low-latency, high-throughput live odds for millions of users.

You’ll own architectural decisions, partner with quantitative analysts, design ingestion pipelines, implement tests, and contribute to the platform’s evolution while fostering knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.