Senior Software Engineer, Exchange

Our exchange is the core technology powering our predictions market offering - we're building an entirely new foundation for sports predictions at scale, and we're looking for the engineers to help us do it right.

The role

We are building the future of prediction markets.

You will design, build and scale the systems that underpin our exchange infrastructure — focusing on latency, reliability, and accuracy across the most critical paths in our platform. This means owning core components end to end, making system design decisions that matter, and optimizing performance under real, high-throughput conditions.

The team is responsible for the APIs (FIX+REST+WebSockets), market data syndication, and connectivity that sophisticated clients depend on to interact with our markets. You will work closely with teams across Underdog to hold a high bar on performance and availability for customers that expect both.

We are a team of highly accountable and ambitious people, and you see yourself the same way. This is high-ownership, high-impact work and your contributions will be visible and impactful.

What you'll do

• Build and scale core exchange infrastructure - order matching, trade execution algorithms, and the data structures that underpin them
• Build APIs and data feeds that clients depend on - REST, FIX, WebSockets - and make them fast and reliable
• Design robust clearing infrastructure, position management, margining, and how money actually moves.
• Drive technical relationships with our customers (market makers, traders, etc.)
• Hunt down performance bottlenecks - in databases, internal services, and anywhere latency is costing us
• Put systems under pressure before production does - rigorous testing of the things that can't go down
• Help invent what prediction market structure looks like beyond what exists today - new contract types, new mechanics, etc.
• Move fast, make calls, and own the outcome - we give real autonomy, which means real accountability.

What you bring

• At least 5+ years of engineering experience, with a track record on high-performance, low-latency systems
• Strong command of highly performant programming languages (C, Rust, C++, Go, Java, or similar) and the willingness and desire to flex into others.
• You are product minded and scope well, you make good tradeoffs, and don't need hand-holding.
• Demonstrable experience thriving in fast-paced and ambiguous environments, where high-agency and ambition go hand-in-hand.
• Experience in TradeFi, prediction markets, crypto exchange infrastructure or SOR.

Bonus points if you have…

• Background in sports, fantasy, or gaming.
• Proven experience building highly available, high-volume consumer-facing systems.
• Deep understanding of concurrency, threading models, and the tradeoffs in performance-sensitive systems

Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $160,000 and $240,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.

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What we can offer you:

• Unlimited PTO for full-time employees (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Home office stipend
• A connected virtual-first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

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