Backend & Data Engineer - Risk & Trading
Backend & Data Engineer - Risk & Trading
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About Sleeper
Sleeper is a rapidly growing platform for sports fans with messaging and gameplay at its core. While much of our stack is Elixir-driven this role bridges Python data services with our Elixir backend GCP and distributed analytics stores. Youll own the data plumbing that powers real-time pricing risk analytics and settlement while collaborating across product data-science and trading teams.
What Youll Be Doing
Design & implement real-time data pipelines (Python SQLX BigQuery) that ingest odds bets and exposure signals with low latency.
Build and operate backend micro-services for pricing settlement and limit management that expose clean gRPC/REST contracts to our Elixir cluster.
Architect a feature store that serves models in production and supports ad-hoc analytics with strong data governance.
Integrate streaming & pub/sub systems (Kafka / Google Pub/Sub) with caching layers (Redis ScyllaDB) to guarantee consistency under high throughput.
Harden CI/CD observability and incident-response runbooks so data integrity issues surface before they hit users.
Partner with data scientists to deploy and monitor models end-to-end from training to online inference.
Own projects from ideation through production balancing delivery speed against the safety demands of real-money systems.
Who You Are
4 years of backend and/or data-engineering experience with Python (FastAPI Django or similar) plus strong SQL chops.
Proven track record designing distributed systems that handle high-volume low-latency workloads.
Experience with stream processing (Kafka Pub/Sub Flink or Beam) and warehouse technologies (BigQuery Snowflake or Redshift).
Comfortableor eager to learnElixir/Erlang and other functional stacks.
Pragmatic engineer who anticipates edge cases and failure modes in financial or real-time environments.
Calm methodical communicator during incidents; you thrive under pressure.
Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)
Prior work with ScyllaDB/Cassandra ClickHouse or other wide-column / OLAP stores.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes Terraform GitLab CI and observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry).
Familiarity with Rust Go or C for ultra-low-latency components.
Knowledge of risk modeling market-making algorithms or sports-betting infrastructure.
Benefits
Competitive salary and stock options
Comprehensive health dental and vision insurance
401(k)
Flexible working hours and remote-first culture
Clear paths for career growth and leadership
What We Offer
Sleeper keeps its team intentionally small so every engineer has outsized product impact. Youll work alongside designers data scientists and trading expertsall focused on one mission: connecting people through sports. We believe in equitable pay and an inclusive workplace.
Certain U.S. locations require a reasonable estimate of base salary. Compensation will consider skills experience and market data. Sleeper is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. To learn more visit .
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.
To learn more visit us online at:
Employment Type
Full-Time
