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
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What We Do
Founded in 2022 by Joey Levy and Jake Paul, Betr is a leading sports gaming and sports media company focused on enhancing the consumption of sports through entertainment.
Betr's gaming products are differentiated through a unique product experience with a simplified user interface that is catered to the casual sports fan, enabling Betr to capture more of the under-penetrated online gaming addressable market. Betr began with a beta version of its Online Sports Betting (OSB) product, which only offered microbetting markets such as the next play in a football game or the next pitch in a baseball game, before launching its real-money Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) product, Betr Picks, in 24 states. Betr plans on launching its V1 Sportsbook product with full sportsbook capabilities ahead of the 2024 NFL season, as well as its iGaming vertical with the launch of Betr Casino by the end of 2024.
Betr's media division, Betr Media, is the fastest growing sports betting media brand in the United States that has grown to over 2.5 million followers, 2.4 billion impressions, and 127 million engagements across its social channels since publicly launching in August 2022. Betr Media is able to effectively reach and engage its audience at scale given its large social following coupled with its unique combination of in-house media talent and production, with an emphasis on original short-form video content.
Betr is backed by Fuel Venture Capital, Aliya Capital Partners, Roger Ehrenberg/IA Sports Ventures, Florida Funders, 8vc, Anti Fund, 305 Ventures, and many others.
