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Novig · 1 day ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Core Trading Systems

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$175K/yr - $250K/yr
date4+ years exp

Novig is a peer-to-peer prediction market aiming to provide a fair and transparent alternative to traditional sportsbooks. The role involves architecting and building core trading systems, including a matching engine and real-time state machines, while collaborating with various teams to ensure a seamless user experience.

GamblingMobilePrediction MarketsSports

Responsibilities

Excited to architect and build Novig’s core trading systems, including the matching engine, market-data pipelines, risk controls, and real-time state machines, shaping the platform at a foundational level
Design and implement deterministic, event-driven systems for matching, settlement, and market-making flows, with strong ordering and idempotency guarantees
Build high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure for data ingestion, distribution, replay, order gateways, session management, and pre-/at-trade risk checks
Develop developer-first APIs for algorithmic trading integrations and high-reliability endpoints for programmatic and UI clients
Collaborate closely with frontend, trading, product, and SRE teams to maintain a seamless, reliable user experience, including recovery, failover, observability, and performance optimization
Expand product surface via modular backend services, contribute to architecture discussions, operational readiness, and production debugging
Optimize system hot paths using profiling, tracing, and performance tools; improve architecture for modularity, stability, and future regulatory compliance
Bring 4+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in distributed or real-time systems, with proficiency in Go, Rust, or C++ and knowledge of concurrent programming, event-driven architectures, and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
Understand CAP tradeoffs, ordering semantics, and consistency/availability considerations; navigate ambiguity and take ownership across large technical surfaces
Communicate clearly, solve complex problems, and collaborate effectively across teams

Qualification

GoRustC++Distributed systemsEvent-driven architecturesRelational databasesHigh-throughput systemsProblem solvingCollaborationCommunication

Required

4+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in distributed or real-time systems
Proficiency in Go, Rust, or C++
Knowledge of concurrent programming, event-driven architectures, and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
Understand CAP tradeoffs, ordering semantics, and consistency/availability considerations
Navigate ambiguity and take ownership across large technical surfaces
Communicate clearly, solve complex problems, and collaborate effectively across teams
Excited to architect and build Novig's core trading systems, including the matching engine, market-data pipelines, risk controls, and real-time state machines
Design and implement deterministic, event-driven systems for matching, settlement, and market-making flows, with strong ordering and idempotency guarantees
Build high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure for data ingestion, distribution, replay, order gateways, session management, and pre-/at-trade risk checks
Develop developer-first APIs for algorithmic trading integrations and high-reliability endpoints for programmatic and UI clients
Collaborate closely with frontend, trading, product, and SRE teams to maintain a seamless, reliable user experience, including recovery, failover, observability, and performance optimization
Expand product surface via modular backend services, contribute to architecture discussions, operational readiness, and production debugging
Optimize system hot paths using profiling, tracing, and performance tools; improve architecture for modularity, stability, and future regulatory compliance

Preferred

Experience with matching engines, market-making systems, order books, HFT infrastructure, Kafka, Redis, real-time streaming systems, or financial exchanges
Passion for sports, betting, and market microstructure, with curiosity about building highly reliable trading systems

Benefits

Meaningful equity for every employee, regardless of role
100% health premiums covered
99% dental & vision covered
401(k) with 4% company match
HSA + $1,080 annual company contribution
$27/day lunch stipend when working from our NYC office
$35/day dinner stipend when working from the NYC office after 6:30pm

Company

Novig

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Novig is the high-frequency, commission-free sports betting exchange.
dateFounded in 2021
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
http://novig.co

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$24.9M
Key Investors
Forerunner
2025-08-10Series A· $18M
2024-04-01Seed
2023-09-01Seed

Leadership Team

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Jacob Fortinsky
Co-Founder & CEO
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Kelechi Ukah
Co-Founder & CTO
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