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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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