Senior Backend Engineer - Quantitative Sports
What are we building?
Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We're building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we're always acting authentically.
Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We're taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us?
What's the position?
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our new Quantitative Sports team. As a Senior Engineer you will play a critical role in the development and maintenance of the backend aspects of the pricing system for our sportsbook and work alongside our quantitative analysts to deliver our in-house pricing solution. This position will be able to come in and have a lot of ownership of the shape of the backend implementation.
Because we operate with a startup mindset, we will be reliant on your technical skill, but also your passion and ownership over all aspects of your work.
Key Responsibilities:
Significantly contribute to efforts on a scalable platform designed to perform reliably under intense user and data load
Be a contributor in architecture discussions regarding the pricing platform
Be a contributor to the drive to reduce the latency within the system
Ensure a full testing structure is in place to create confidence and resilience in the system
Foster team collaboration and knowledge sharing
Work closely with the quantitative developers to ensure best practices and alignment within the wider department
Build operational tools and applications to support teams as required
