Senior Go Backend Engineer: Prediction Markets Platform

Crypto.com; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401(k) plan with employer match

Group health, dental, vision, and life

Work flex hours and hybrid setup

Internal mobility program

Job summary

Crypto.com is hiring a senior backend engineer to design and ship Go-based services that publish and settle event contracts on a CFTC-regulated exchange. You will lead migrating critical workflows from Python/Airflow to Go and durable job processing, while ensuring live markets stay uninterrupted.

You’ll design data pipelines across multiple providers, build robust settlement logic, and collaborate with trading, operations, compliance, and product teams across time zones.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and running production backend systems, with ownership from design through on-call.
• Strong skills in Go, or deep experience in another backend language plus a clear willingness to work primarily in Go
• Deep PostgreSQL knowledge, including schema design, migrations, query performance, transactions, isolation levels
• Experience designing distributed systems, including concurrency, idempotency, retries, at-least-once processing, failure handling
• A record of leading projects that span teams and making sound architecture trade-offs
• Clear writing, good judgment, and comfort when requirements are unclear

Responsibilities

• Own the design of Go backend services that list and settle event contracts around the clock
• Lead the move of business-critical workflows from Python/Airflow to Go services and durable job processing, without breaking live markets
• Design pipelines that take in data from multiple providers, match the same event across them, and reconcile differences accurately and idempotently
• Build settlement logic that holds up when things go wrong, including late or corrected results, cancellations, voided markets, provider outages, and race conditions
• Write and review design docs, set engineering standards, and lead technical decisions across teams
• Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback
• Take part in on-call, lead incident response, and remove the causes of recurring incidents
• Work with trading, operations, compliance, and product teams across time zones

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Leadership

On-call

Tools

Redis

Kafka

River

Python

Airflow

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Crypto.com is hiring a senior backend engineer to design and ship Go-based services that publish and settle event contracts on a CFTC-regulated exchange. You will lead migrating critical workflows from Python/Airflow to Go and durable job processing, while ensuring live markets stay uninterrupted.

You’ll design data pipelines across multiple providers, build robust settlement logic, and collaborate with trading, operations, compliance, and product teams across time zones.