Senior Software Engineer (Risk and Trading)

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States; hybrid

Salary: $149,000–$186,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global Group is a United States and Canada-focused mobile gaming company operating sportsbook, iGaming, horse racing, daily fantasy sports, and sports media products as part of Flutter Entertainment.

What you will do

• Build and evolve real-time quoting and decisioning components with attention to latency, throughput, correctness, and operational performance.
• Implement risk controls and guardrails including exposure checks, limits, throttling, filters, and kill-switch patterns.
• Ensure high-quality decision logging so strategies can be debugged, replayed, and improved using quote and fill outcomes.
• Partner with quantitative analysts and stakeholders to define and monitor quote ratio, win rate, expected versus realized margin, exposure, and capital-utilization metrics.
• Own software delivery across design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and on-call support.
• Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, design sessions, mentoring, recruitment, planning, and operational-excellence improvements.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of industry experience in engineering, machine learning, data science, finance engineering, or statistics, including at least 5 years of software development experience.
• Experience with quantitative modeling practices and coding, including assisting with model or strategy creation and productionizing the resulting software.
• Proficiency building services with a modern object-oriented programming language.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, performance, hardware, and lower-level memory management.
• Experience with GitOps patterns, CI/CD tooling, cloud infrastructure, AWS services including API Gateway, workflow orchestration, Lambda, and serverless applications.
• Experience designing and interacting with relational databases, plus understanding of containers such as Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, testing tools, secure SDLC practices, Agile development, and operational excellence with on-call support.
• Ability to translate requirements into designs and applications, document code and designs clearly, handle data according to hirify.global policies, track security risks, and resolve complex problems at their root cause.

Nice to have

• C# experience and lower-level programming with C, C++, or Rust.
• BuildKite, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Helm, Kafka, Jira, and Confluence experience.
• Experience building event-driven or real-time systems with observability and safe rollout patterns.
• Familiarity with exposure, hedging, inventory or position, performance measurement, backtesting, simulation, replay tooling, or strategy evaluation workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, cross-functional Agile environment with autonomous ownership and continuous technical learning.
• Health, dental, vision, mental health, fertility and family-planning, fitness, disability, life-insurance, and pet-insurance benefits.
• Paid time off, sick leave, and 14 paid company holidays.
• 401(k) matching of up to 5%, commuter benefits, annual bonus, and potential long-term incentive, cash bonus, and stock-program opportunities.
• Reasonable workplace accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities.