Backend engineer
Pinnacle Odds Dropper|Posted 1 day ago
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POD - Backend/Data Engineer
About Us
We’ve built a thriving SaaS platform that provides professional sports bettors with real-time data, odds tracking, and analytical tools that give them a competitive edge. Having achieved product-market fit and profitability, we're now expanding beyond our niche to become the industry leader in sports betting intelligence. Our platform helps users identify value bets through real-time alerts, historical data analysis, and sophisticated bet tracking with CLV metrics.
The Opportunity
We're building a small, elite product team to create our next-generation platform. This is primarily greenfield development work where you'll have significant input into architecture decisions and product direction. We value craft, attention to detail, and engineering excellence—creating products that aren't just functional, but exceptional.
Your Mission
Design and build scalable, high-performance systems that process massive amounts of real-time sports betting data with speed and reliability.
What You’ll Work On
- Data ingestion pipelines:
- Integrate multiple sportsbook/odds APIs (both free and paid feeds).
- Where APIs are not available write scalable scrapers
- Build reliable, fault-tolerant pipelines to fetch and normalize odds in real time.
- Backend processing & storage:
- Design efficient systems for parsing, transforming, and storing high-frequency odds data.
- Work with time-series and relational databases to balance speed and reliability.
- Real-time alerting & APIs:
- Develop services to trigger user alerts within milliseconds of odds changes.
- Expose clean, scalable APIs for use by our frontend and external integrations.
- Scalability & monitoring:
- Ensure pipelines scale as we onboard more bookmakers and sports.
- Implement robust logging, monitoring, and automated recovery.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with real-time data alerting systems.
- Knowledge of sports betting markets
- Contributions to high-frequency trading, fintech, or other data-heavy domains.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong backend/data engineering skills.
- Experience with realtime data processing.
- Database expertise.
- Cloud infrastructure expertise.
- Proven ability to design high-availability, fault-tolerant pipelines.
Our Current Tech Stack
- Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js
- Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, tRPC, Kafka/Redpanda
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse/Tinybird, TimescaleDB
- Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Fly, Render, Railway
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation
- Fully remote work environment with flexible hours
- Opportunity to shape the future of a profitable, growing startup
- Work on challenging technical problems with real impact
- Small team where your contributions are highly visible
- Chance to build something exceptional from the ground up
Who We're Looking For
- Engineers who take pride in their craft and strive for excellence
- Strong problem-solvers who can think independently
- Attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Passion for building refined, high-performance software
- Highly autonomous work ethic. Comfortable working in a small, fast-moving team.
We're based in London but are fully remote and hire exceptional talent globally. If you're excited about creating sophisticated software that helps users gain a competitive edge through data, we want to hear from you.
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About Pinnacle Odds Dropper
What we do
Pinnacle Odds Dropper (POD) helps bettors capture value by notifying them when Pinnacle sportsbook’s odds drop or lines move. The platform continually scans thousands of markets in real time, then issues alerts the moment favourable changes occur. POD also allows users to track bets, monitor ROI, and refine their betting strategies.
We combine data engineering, real-time systems, analytics, and domain-specific models to power these notifications and insights.
Why Work For Us
- You’ll be working at the intersection of data, real-time systems, and sports / betting analytics — a technically challenging and niche domain.
- You’ll have direct impact: your work will go straight into production and be used by real users capturing financial value.
- Opportunity to work with interesting data (odds, lines, time series) and build systems that operate at low latency, high throughput.
- Lean team / startup mindset — less bureaucracy, more ownership and autonomy.
- Chance to grow with the company and shape its architecture, tooling, and culture from early stages.
- Flexible / remote work arrangements
Our Culture
- Outcome-oriented, not process-obsessed — we trust engineers to choose the right tools / approach for the problem.
- Data-driven decision making — we rely on metrics, experiments, monitoring, and feedback loops.
- We learn continuously — sharing knowledge, postmortems, technical improvements are expected.
- Collaboration & transparency — cross-functional teams, open communication, code reviews, pairing.
- Ownership mindset — each engineer is responsible for their features in full (design, implementation, operations).
- Iterative & pragmatic — we favour shipping working solutions, iterating, and improving over perfecting upfront.