Senior Software Engineer, Prediction Markets Platform

What you’ll do

• 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.

What we’re looking for

• Required 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 Postgres 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 archit