Backend Engineer, L5

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Salary

$230K-$260K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

110% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Company

Company stage

Growth-stage From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Backend Engineer, L5 New York, New York SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER $230k - $260k • meaningful equity ABOUT NOVIG Novig is building America's #1 sports prediction market. Our mission is to financialize and democratize sports trading - taking a closed system run by casinos and turning it into a fair, efficient, two-sided market where the power sits with users. With CFTC approval on the horizon, we're poised to go live across all 50 states as the leading sports-focused, federally regulated market built on trust, transparency, and real user protection. We're backed by some of Silicon Valley's top investors - Pantera, Forerunner, Lux, NFX, Paul Graham, and Joe Montana - who have collectively invested over $100M behind this vision. ABOUT THE ROLE Sports trading infrastructure is years behind where it should be. You'll work deep in the stack - distributed systems, real-time data pipelines, developer-facing APIs for algorithmic traders - applying the same principles that make modern financial exchanges fast and transparent. The technical surface area is large and the team is small, so your decisions carry real weight. This role is for someone who thrives with ownership, moves fast, and gets genuinely excited by hard backend problems. WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU WILL DO - Excited to apply state-of-the-art technologies from modern financial exchanges to enforce transparent and efficient market practices in the future of sports betting - Work across infrastructure, data layer, networking, and application logic, depending on your familiarity with different components of our tech stack - Contribute

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