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Senior Backend Engineer - Quantitative Sports
Hard Rock Digital
WorldwideremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- Required experience: 8+ years of backend engineering
- Key benefit: Flexible vacation allowance
- Key benefit: Hybrid / remote working environment
- Notable requirement: Deep proficiency in Python
- Notable requirement: Experience with low-latency/high-throughput systems
Role overview
Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social casino company in the world, leveraging the brand legacy of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Quantitative Sports team to help build the next generation of their in-house pricing engine, a low-latency, high-throughput system that powers live odds for millions of users. This is a high-impact role with significant autonomy, where the engineer will own major architectural decisions, partner with quantitative analysts, and shape the core backend that drives the sportsbook in a fast-moving environment.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build backend services that operate reliably under intense data and user load
- Reduce system latency and optimize real‑time performance across the pricing pipeline
- Collaborate closely with quantitative developers to integrate models and pricing logic
- Design and maintain ingestion pipelines for multiple live data feeds
- Implement robust testing and monitoring to ensure system resilience
- Build internal tools that support trading, operations, and analytics teams
- Contribute to technical strategy and long‑term platform evolution
- Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and engineering excellence
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience
- Deep proficiency in Python for production systems
- Experience with low‑latency, real‑time, or high‑throughput systems
- Background in multi‑feed ingestion architectures
- Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems
- Experience deploying and operating systems in AWS
- Familiarity with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
- Experience with analytical stores (Snowflake, ClickHouse)
- Strong knowledge of messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross‑functionally
- Self-driven and comfortable owning large areas of the system
- Meticulous in your approach to testing, reliability, and performance
- Able to prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Excited by complex technical challenges and real-time systems
Nice to have
- Experience with pricing engines, trading algorithms, or live odds generation
- Interest in sports and sport analytics
- Familiarity with game state feeds such-as Radar & Genius
- Prior hands-on experience in sportsbook platforms is highly desirable
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Flexible vacation allowance
- A hybrid / remote working environment
- Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand
Additional details
- Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where regardless of background or beliefs you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play.
- We want to celebrate you being you (we are an equal opportunity employer).
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