Senior Backend Engineer
Betr
Software Engineering
Canada
ABOUT BETR
Founded in 2022 by Joey Levy and Jake Paul, Betr has built the world's first real money gaming super app. Our product suite spans Picks, Social Sportsbook, Social Casino, and Arcade, with Predictions launching later this year. Betr Picks launched in September 2023, which has quickly become one of the leading fantasy sports pick 'em products in the U.S. The product is currently available in 34 states. In September 2025, we launched Betr Social Sportsbook and Betr Arcade. Since launch, Betr Social Sportsbook, which is live in 32 states, has been one of the fastest growing products in the industry. Betr Arcade has quickly emerged as a leading skill games platform and is live in 38 states. Betr Social Casino launched in February 2026 and is live in 33 states.
Betr is also the most followed sports gaming company on social media in the world, featuring 24/7 original content created by Betr Media, our internal media division. Betr Media has grown to 2.5M+ followers and 2.4B impressions since launching in 2022.
Betr has one million paying users and is one of the fastest growing companies in the industry. We're backed by Fuel Venture Capital, Aliya Capital Partners, IA Sports Ventures, FinSight Ventures, Florida Funders, Harmony Partners, 8vc, and other top-tier investors.
What You'll Do:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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
Why Join Betr's ITC Team?
- 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