Hard Rock Digital
Senior Backend Engineer - Quantitative Sports
United States, FL · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
About the job
Build and evolve a low-latency pricing engine and backend services that power live sportsbook odds.
What you'll do
- Architect, build, and optimize backend services and real-time pricing pipelines.
- Integrate quantitative models and pricing logic, and maintain ingestion pipelines for live data feeds.
- Implement testing, monitoring, internal tools, and contribute to technical strategy.
What they ask for
- Deep proficiency in Python for production systems.
- Experience with low-latency, real-time, or high-throughput systems and multi-feed ingestion architectures.
- Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems; experience deploying and operating systems in AWS.
- Familiarity with relational databases, analytical stores, and messaging systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with pricing engines, trading algorithms, live odds generation, or sportsbook platforms.
- Interest in sports and sports analytics; familiarity with game state feeds such as Radar & Genius.
Tools
Python, AWS, Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Kafka, RabbitMQ
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