Senior Backend Engineer - Quantitative Sports

What are we building?

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social casino company in the world. We're building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's 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, the new 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