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# Senior Backend Engineer (Sports & Prediction Markets) - Golang

- **Company:** Foris DAX, Inc.
- **Location:** Miami, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Code Review, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Systems Development Life Cycle, Redis, State Machines, Backend, Apache Kafka, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-backend-engineer-sports-prediction-markets-golang-miami-fl--b6a359aa-db1c-43a0-b816-12f1f2a9ed6b

## About the Role

Sports, Go Programming Language (Golang), High Throughput, Ecosystems, Sports, Startup, Distributed Computing, Go Programming Language (Golang), Sports Software, Architectural Services, Minimum Qualifications (Must-Haves):

 * Solid mid-to-senior level professional experience specializing in backend system development, with an absolute proficiency and production-level mastery.
 * Proven experience working closely with Sports systems, Sportsbooks, Prediction markets, or high-velocity sports-data infrastructure.
 * Proficiency in Golang, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka preferred
 * Communication & Collaboration: Elite interpersonal skills with a strong capacity for stakeholder management; comfortable navigating cross-functional, global matrix teams and managing competing project priorities.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves / Ideal Fits):

 * Deep familiarity with transaction-heavy, money-related modules, or payment ledgers.
 * Advanced expertise in designing complex concurrent systems, race-condition mitigation, and distributed state machines.
 * Previous professional experience operating smoothly within a rapid, ambiguous, or highly entrepreneurial startup environment.

## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Mid-to-Senior Backend Engineer to spearhead the growth of our 24/7 high-throughput infrastructure, with a particular focus on expanding our core domains into the sports, prediction ecosystem.

This role demands an engineer who thrives within a fast-paced, startup-minded ecosystem, possessing a deep domain understanding of sports platforms / prediction environments, and capable of keeping critical transactional networks running flawlessly around the clock., * Design, develop, and optimize robust, highly scalable backend services and distributed systems in Golang to power our 24/7 global trading and sports-domain applications.

 * Develop backend services and operations, including proposing architectural decisions, participating in design reviews, coding, code review, and implementing features
 * Act as the technical subject matter expert to increase and embed deep sports domain knowledge into our core backend, building features tailored to prediction markets, real-time sports data feeds, and interactive mechanics.
 * Identify, diagnose, and resolve architectural bottlenecks within a large-scale, high-concurrency infrastructure
 * Operational Support: Provide high-tier technical operational support to address complex, real-time client issues and maintain flawless systemic availability.