Senior Backend Engineer, Core Trading Systems
Novig, New York
The role
$200k – $260k • meaningful equity
As a Senior Backend Engineer at MAG, you’ll build the core trading engine that powers our market-making across multiple prediction-market and event-contract venues. You’ll own the infrastructure that connects to each venue, normalizes real-time market data, manages orders and positions, and enforces risk controls, all with the reliability that live sports demand. You’ll work directly with our traders, turning their feedback into faster execution, better tooling, and new strategy capabilities, with results you’ll see in PnL within days.
Because our markets run on the sports calendar, you’ll share on-call duty and cover one weekend roughly every six weeks. This is a high-ownership role on a small team where your architectural decisions will shape how the entire trading operation scales.
What you need
- Excited to architect and build MAG’s core systems, including the trading engine, market-data pipelines, risk controls, and real-time state machines, shaping the platform at a foundational level