What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Backend Engineer position at Betr?
About Betr
Founded in 2022 by Joey Levy and Jake Paul, Betr is building the world's first real money gaming super app. The company's first product, Betr Picks, launched in September 2023 and quickly grew to several hundreds of thousands of paying users that have already won $250M on the platform. Betr recently launched Betr Arcade with plans on launching additional new nationwide gaming products within its single app experience in 2025 to further differentiate its product offering. In addition to its single-app experience, Betr's gaming products are differentiated through a unique, simplified user interface that is catered to the casual sports fan and gamer, enabling Betr to capture more of the under-penetrated online gaming addressable market.
Betr's media division, Betr Media, is one of the fastest growing sports gaming media brands in the U.S. and helps support the company's user acquisition and retention efforts.
Betr is backed by Fuel Venture Capital, Aliya Capital Partners, IA Sports Ventures, FinSight Ventures, Florida Funders, Harmony Partners, 8vc, and other top-tier investors.
About the Role
We're looking for a senior backend engineer to join our Integration Team at Betr, a rapidly growing sports betting and daily fantasy sports company. This team is the backbone of our platform—ingesting odds feeds from multiple providers, managing critical data pipelines, and ensuring seamless integration between all parts of our system.
You'll own significant technical areas from day one, work with cutting-edge sports betting technology, and solve complex distributed systems challenges at scale.
\n- Own integration with sports feed data providers
- Build and maintain WebSocket clients for real-time odds and event data
- Ingest and normalize data from REST APIs and streaming feeds
- Handle data mapping between providers (teams, players, events, markets)
- Troubleshoot data quality issues and discrepancies across feeds
- Design and maintain Kafka topics and consumer/producer architecture
- Monitor and troubleshoot consumer lag issues
- Optimize message processing for high-volume, real-time data streams
- Manage data flow between microservices (ITC → SBK → Picks)
- Work with Redis for caching and performance optimization
- Maintain and extend the Market Management System
- Build tools for product ops (Retool dashboards)
- Implement market settlement logic
- Handle market limits and configuration management
- Support live market suspension/unsuspension logic
- Ensure 99.9% uptime for critical data pipelines
- Optimize memory consumption and application stability
- Implement monitoring and observability (Datadog)
- Debug production issues across distributed systems
- Participate in on-call rotation
- 5 years backend engineering experience with production systems
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin or Java (we use Kotlin primarily)
- Deep understanding of Kafka (topics, consumers, producers, streaming)
- Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architecture
- SQL and database optimization skills (Mysql, PostgreSQL)
- Ability to debug complex issues across multiple services
- Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration
- Experience with PHP (we have some legacy systems)
- WebSocket implementation experience
- Redis for caching at scale
- Real-time data processing and normalization
- Vert.x or similar reactive frameworks
- Sports betting or gaming industry background
- DevOps/infrastructure experience (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with RabbitMQ
- Retool or similar internal tooling platforms
- High Impact: You'll own critical systems that power the entire platform
- Technical Depth: Complex distributed systems, high-volume real-time data, interesting scale challenges
- Ownership: From day one, you'll own significant technical areas
- Growth: We're expanding rapidly—lots of opportunity to grow with the company
- Team: Work with a strong engineering team that values technical excellence
- Remote-First: Work from anywhere in Canada
At Betr, we're driven by a shared vision to reshape the sports & gaming industry. As a dynamic startup poised for remarkable growth, we're dedicated to crafting innovative experiences that cater to sports enthusiasts across the nation. We believe in pushing boundaries, embracing diversity, and fostering a collaborative culture that extends beyond the world of sports. Join us in shaping the future of sports entertainment!
Betr provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We deeply understand the value of bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply
Thank you for your interest in Betr. We look forward to reviewing your application.