Senior Go Backend Engineer – Prediction Markets Platform

Crypto.com; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual leave entitlement

401(k) plan with employer match

Health, dental, vision, and life/disab

Hybrid work set-up

Job summary

Crypto.com is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own and design Go services for listing and settling event contracts on our regulated platform. You will migrate critical workflows from Python/Airflow to Go and ensure live markets stay uninterrupted.

You’ll design data pipelines across providers, implement durable processing, and mentor teams while collaborating with trading, operations, compliance, and product 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, 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

On-call ownership

Architecture decisions

Leadership

Tools

Redis

Kafka

River

Python

Airflow

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Crypto.com is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own and design Go services for listing and settling event contracts on our regulated platform. You will migrate critical workflows from Python/Airflow to Go and ensure live markets stay uninterrupted.

You’ll design data pipelines across providers, implement durable processing, and mentor teams while collaborating with trading, operations, compliance, and product across time zones.