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Senior Backend Engineer
New York
✨ $150k-$250k / yearest.
full-timeseniormedia
🛠 Tech Stack
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💼 About This Role
You'll build and scale the core exchange infrastructure for the world's largest prediction market platform. You'll design low-latency backend systems in C/C++ that must be correct, fast, and resilient under real-world trading load. This high-ownership role offers minimal bureaucracy and a strong bias toward execution.
🎯 What You'll Do
- Design and implement scalable, low-latency backend services using C/C++ or similar systems languages.
- Profile, tune, and debug systems for latency, throughput, memory usage, and correctness in production.
- Build and operate robust APIs, data pipelines, and event-driven systems with messaging/streaming platforms.
- Own reliability, security, and scalability of backend systems; diagnose and resolve production issues.
📋 Requirements
- 4–7+ years of professional backend development experience.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ or another systems language (Go, Rust, Java).
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and memory management.
- Experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems and debugging production issues on Linux.
✨ Nice to Have
- Experience in trading systems, HFT, gaming, telecom or latency-sensitive domains.
- Production experience with Kafka, Pulsar, or similar streaming platforms at scale.
- Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, ZeroMQ, or cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and containers.
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- 💰 Competitive salary & equity
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
- 🩺 Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 📈 401k match
- 💻 Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
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