Senior Backend Engineer (Sports & Prediction Markets) – Golang

OG.com, a CFTC-regulated prediction market platform powered by Crypto.com, is seeking a Mid-to-Senior Backend Engineer to expand its high-throughput infrastructure for sports and prediction markets. The role focuses on designing scalable Golang backend services, embedding sports-domain expertise into prediction-market features, resolving architectural bottlenecks, and providing high-tier operational support.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize robust, highly scalable backend services and distributed systems in Golang to power our 24/7 global trading and sports-domain applications

Develop backend services and operations, including proposing architectural decisions, participating in design reviews, coding, code review, and implementing features

Act as the technical subject matter expert to increase and embed deep sports domain knowledge into our core backend, building features tailored to prediction markets, real-time sports data feeds, and interactive mechanics

Identify, diagnose, and resolve architectural bottlenecks within a large-scale, high-concurrency infrastructure

Operational Support: Provide high-tier technical operational support to address complex, real-time client issues and maintain flawless systemic availability

Preferred

• Communication & Collaboration: Elite interpersonal skills with a strong capacity for stakeholder management; comfortable navigating cross-functional, global matrix teams and managing competing project priorities
• Deep familiarity with transaction-heavy, money-related modules, or payment ledgers
• Advanced expertise in designing complex concurrent systems, race-condition mitigation, and distributed state machines
• Previous professional experience operating smoothly within a rapid, ambiguous, or highly entrepreneurial startup environment

Stakeholder Management

Transaction Modules

Payment Ledgers

Concurrent Systems Design

Race-Condition Mitigation

Distributed State Machines

Startup Environment Experience

Communication Skills

Collaboration Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Project Prioritization

Benefits

Attractive annual leave entitlement including: birthday, work anniversary

401(k) plan with employer match

Eligible for company-sponsored group health, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance

Work Flexibility Adoption. Flexi-work hour and hybrid set-up

Aspire career alternatives through us. Our internal mobility program can offer employees a diverse scope.

Company

Cryptocurrency exchange for buying, selling, storing, and trading crypto.

Singapore, Central Region, SGP

https://crypto.com/

Founded in 2016

1001-5000 employees

Qualifications

• Solid mid-to-senior level professional experience specializing in backend system development, with an absolute proficiency and production-level mastery
• Proven experience working closely with Sports systems, Sportsbooks, Prediction markets, or high-velocity sports-data infrastructure
• Proficiency in Golang, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka
• Communication & Collaboration: Elite interpersonal skills with a strong capacity for stakeholder management; comfortable navigating cross-functional, global matrix teams and managing competing project priorities
• Deep familiarity with transaction-heavy, money-related modules, or payment ledgers
• Advanced expertise in designing complex concurrent systems, race-condition mitigation, and distributed state machines
• Previous professional experience operating smoothly within a rapid, ambiguous, or highly entrepreneurial startup environment

Required skills

Backend System Development, Sports Systems, Prediction Markets, Golang, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Kafka, Payment Ledgers, Concurrent Systems, Distributed State Machines, Race-Condition Mitigation, Stakeholder Management