[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Exchange
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Underdog is a rapidly growing sports company focused on enhancing the experience for sports fans. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale their exchange infrastructure, ensuring high performance and reliability for their prediction market offerings.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale core exchange infrastructure - order matching, trade execution algorithms, and the data structures that underpin them
- Build APIs and data feeds that clients depend on - REST, FIX, WebSockets - and make them fast and reliable
- Design robust clearing infrastructure, position management, margining, and how money actually moves
- Drive technical relationships with our customers (market makers, traders, etc.)
- Hunt down performance bottlenecks - in databases, internal services, and anywhere latency is costing us
- Put systems under pressure before production does - rigorous testing of the things that can't go down
- Help invent what prediction market structure looks like beyond what exists today - new contract types, new mechanics, etc
- Move fast, make calls, and own the outcome - we give real autonomy, which means real accountability
Skills
- At least 5+ years of engineering experience, with a track record on high-performance, low-latency systems
- Strong command of highly performant programming languages (C, Rust, C++, Go, Java, or similar) and the willingness and desire to flex into others
- You are product minded and scope well, you make good tradeoffs, and don't need hand-holding
- Demonstrable experience thriving in fast-paced and ambiguous environments, where high-agency and ambition go hand-in-hand
- Experience in TradeFi, prediction markets, crypto exchange infrastructure or SOR
- This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations
- Background in sports, fantasy, or gaming
- Proven experience building highly available, high-volume consumer-facing systems
- Deep understanding of concurrency, threading models, and the tradeoffs in performance-sensitive systems
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO for full-time employees (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
- A connected virtual-first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
- 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents
- We're a remote-first company and value in-person connection. That said, we expect everyone to gather 2-3 times per year for team and company offsites, trainings, and more.
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