Head of Engineering (Real-Time Data Platform)

Betstamp

$125K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in production backend systems
  • Strong background in typed, compiled languages
  • Experience in management or technical leadership roles
  • Proven ability to own critical systems and lead incident responses
  • Practical, heavy use of AI coding tools with sound technical judgment
  • A proactive approach to adopting and implementing AI technologies
  • Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Willingness to be based in Toronto or relocate

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical direction and architecture for the engineering projects
  • Lead, mentor, and review team members while contributing to hiring efforts
  • Regularly ship code and manage complex tasks such as migrations
  • Establish standards for using AI tools in development
  • Plan project scopes and timelines, communicating any trade-offs
  • Monitor uptime and manage incident response for real-time platforms
  • Assess and guide operational practices for reliability

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and opportunities for raises
  • Autonomy in role with significant influence over projects
  • Budget for gear and learning, with freedom to explore AI tools
  • Access to professional-grade betting tools at no cost
  • Engaging sports-centric workplace culture with team activities
Full Job Description
The Role

Betstamp tracks odds from sportsbooks, exchanges, and prediction markets in real time. Our Go monorepo, Redis Streams and ClickHouse pipeline, API, and web app calculate and deliver line movement, edge, and expected value to bettors.

This role owns that engineering surface. You'll set technical direction, lead the team, and remain hands-on in the code. You'll also work directly with management to turn business and product priorities into scoped engineering work and report on progress and risks.

AI is central to how we expect the team to operate. You'll use AI tools heavily in your own work, establish effective practices across the team, and continually evaluate how new capabilities can improve our development process and products.

What You'll Own

  • Technical direction: Set architecture and decide what should be built, improved, or retired across the monorepo, pro.betstamp.com, and supporting services.
  • Team leadership: Manage, mentor, and review engineers while helping hire and develop the team.
  • Hands-on delivery: Ship code regularly and take on work requiring senior judgment, including complex migrations and production incidents.
  • AI-enabled engineering: Set the standard for using coding agents and AI tools effectively. Improve team output without lowering the bar for correctness, security, or maintainability.
  • Planning and reporting: Define scope and timelines, communicate tradeoffs, and keep management informed of progress and risks.
  • Production reliability: Own uptime, alerting, incident response, and the operational practices behind our real-time data platform.

The role is approximately evenly split between leadership and individual contribution. You should want to lead a team while continuing to write and review code.

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 of experience building and operating production backend systems
  • Strong experience with a typed, compiled language
  • Experience managing engineers or serving as a technical lead
  • Experience owning critical systems and responding to production incidents
  • Heavy, practical use of AI coding tools, combined with strong technical judgment
  • A forward-looking view of AI and the ability to help a team adopt new tools effectively
  • Ability to scope work, set timelines, and communicate when plans change
  • Strong current coding and code-review skills
  • Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • 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 building products or internal workflows with LLM APIs
  • 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 growing an engineering team


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 Sept 2026, but we'll flex for the right person.

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Betstamp

More Finance & Insurance Jobs

Find similar Head of Engineering (Real-Time Data Platform) jobs: