Staff Engineer / Tech Lead — Real-Time Trading Data

Why Betstamp?

Sports betting is booming, but most bettors still fly blind. Betstamp changes that. Since 2020, we’ve built the go-to platform for odds comparison, +EV betting discovery, and real-time bet tracking across 200+ sportsbooks, DFS, casino, and sweepstakes sites. Our tools level the playing field so every bettor, rookie to pro, has an edge.

We’re a product-obsessed, data-driven startup where shipping great features beats endless meetings, and where every engineer has a direct line to user impact. If you thrive on ownership and want your code to improve someone’s ROI tomorrow, you’ll fit right in.

What You'll Own

- Architecture: Decide what gets built, improved, or retired across the monorepo, pro.betstamp.com, and supporting services.

- Hands-on delivery: Ship code regularly, including the work that requires senior judgment — complex migrations, production incidents, irreversible changes.

- Technical mentoring: Review code, raise the bar, and help develop the engineers around you.

- AI-enabled engineering: Improve team output without lowering the bar for correctness, security, or maintainability.

- Production reliability: Uptime, alerting, incident response, and the operational practices behind a feed people trade on.

- Planning: Scope work, set timelines, communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The Stack

- Go 1.25 monorepo

- PostgreSQL 18, Atlas, and ClickHouse

- Redis/Dragonfly, Redis Streams, and RabbitMQ

- Kubernetes, Docker, and GitHub Actions

- Prometheus and Grafana

- React 19, Vite, TypeScript, and Tailwind

- Playwright, gRPC, and rotating proxy infrastructure

What We're Looking For

- Several years building and operating production backend systems

- Strong experience with a typed, compiled language

- Experience owning critical systems and responding to production incidents

- Technical leadership experience — as a lead, staff engineer, or the person everyone actually asked

- Heavy, practical use of AI coding tools, combined with strong technical judgment

- Strong current coding and code-review skills

- Ability to scope work, set timelines, and communicate when plans change

- Based in Toronto or willing to relocate

Go experience isn't required, but you should become productive in it quickly and be able to review it confidently within a few months.

Nice to Have

- Experience with Go, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, or high-throughput streaming systems

- Experience with odds, market data, trading systems, or other real-time financial products

- Experience owning the full technical stack at a small company

- Experience with scraping at scale, including anti-bot systems, proxy rotation, or browser automation

- Experience building products or internal workflows with LLM APIs

What’s In It for You

- Competitive salary & raises — share in the upside you build

- Autonomy & influence — real scope early, not tickets

- Gear & learning stipend, plus free rein testing and spending on the AI tools of the future

- World-class betting tools — the same tools professional bettors pay for, free

- Sports-centric culture — team watch parties, office prop pools, and the inside scoop on sharp bets

The Process

- 45-min intro call — meet the team, swap questions

- Lightweight take-home (under 2 hours) — a real problem from this codebase, not a LeetCode exercise

- Systems design interview — a real architecture problem together, no whiteboard algorithms

- Final interview — meet the founders, hear the vision for the role

- Offer → onboarding → shipping

We are a team of experienced developers writing exciting new features for Betstamp every day. If you’re looking for an opportunity to have increased responsibility, design decisions, and manage projects from start to finish, Betstamp is a good fit for you.

We care more about ability to learn and deliver than ticking every box—if you’re close, apply!

Plan to start Dec 2025, but we’ll flex for the right person.