Senior Backend Engineer - Quantitative Sports

About the role

What are we building?

Hard Rock Digital is a fiercely focused team working to become the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We're building a deeply curious team with a passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We're customer-obsessed — we care about each customer 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, 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 Quantitative Sports team. We’re building the next generation of our in‑house pricing engine — a low‑latency, high‑throughput system that powers live odds for millions of users. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll own major architectural decisions, partner directly with quantitative analysts, and shape the core backend that drives our sportsbook.

This is a high‑impact role with significant autonomy. If you thrive in fast‑moving environments and love solving complex real‑time engineering challenges, you’ll feel at home here.

What You’ll Do

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

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