Backend Engineer - Risk & Trading

About Sleeper
Sleeper is a rapidly growing platform for sports fans with messaging and gameplay at its core. While much of our existing infrastructure is Elixirdriven this role will focus on Python services that integrate tightly with Elixir GCP and our distributed databases. You will collaborate with product data and frontend teams to ship userfacing features that are fair fast and resilient.

What Youll Be Doing

• Design & implement Python backend services that power realtime risk management and trading operations.

• Build scalable infrastructure for pricing engines market creation settlement and exposure management.

• Integrate with our Elixir services via gRPC/REST Kafka and Redis to ensure consistency and lowlatency performance.

• Architect distributed systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Pub/Sub Cloud Run/Kubernetes and BigQuery.

• Develop robust monitoring alerting and CI/CD pipelines to ensure high availability and quick incident response.

• Collaborate with data scientists on model deployment and optimize endtoend latency from pricing to settlement.

• Own projects from ideation through production making thoughtful tradeoffs in ambiguous highstakes environments.

Who You Are

• 4 years of backend engineering experience with a strong focus on Python (FastAPI Django or similar).

• Proven ability to design and operate distributed systems handling high throughput and low latency.

• Experience with message queues/streams (Apache Kafka Google Pub/Sub) and caching layers (Redis).

• Comfortable interacting with Elixir/Erlang or other functional stacks or eager to learn.

• Pragmatic engineer who thinks critically about edge cases and failure modes especially in financial or realtime systems.

• Calm methodical and communicative when incidents occur; you thrive under pressure.

• Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)Prior work with ScyllaDB/Cassandra or other widecolumn distributed databases.

• Familiarity with Rust Go or C for highperformance components.

• Knowledge of risk modeling marketmaking algorithms or sportsbetting infrastructure.

• Handson experience with Kubernetes GitLab CI and infrastructureascode tools (Terraform).

• Deep understanding of observability: Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry

Preferred Skills (Not Required)

• Experience with Elixir ErlangVM or other functional programming languages

• Familiarity with ScyllaDB Cassandra or other distributed databases

• Experience in financial systems market making or real-money gaming infrastructure

• Knowledge of risk modeling pricing engines or real-time alerting systems
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options

• Comprehensive health dental and vision insurance

• 401(k)

• Flexible working hours and remote work options

• Opportunities for career advancement

What we offer

Sleeper believes in quality over quantity and intentionally keeps our team small as a result. In past roles we found it very hard to make a big impact when companies grow too large in size which has a detrimental effect on the product and the impact any single individual can have. Our team includes designers engineers product experts and finance & operation focused on one thing connecting people over sports. We believe in fair and equitable pay. Certain locations in the United States require job postings to include a reasonable estimate of the base salary range and/or a general description of benefits and other compensation applicable to the role.

Competitive salary plus benefits including Medical Dental PTO 401k. Please note that The salary range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The policy of Sleeper is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation gender identity marital status citizenship status age national origin ancestry disability veteran status or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity. Sleeper is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Companys career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to

Headquartered in Las Vegas NV Sleeper is backed by Silicon Valleys top investors including Andreessen Horowitz General Catalyst and Expa.
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