# Principal / Senior Staff Backend Engineer at Prophetexchange

> Remote · United States · Principal · Backend · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/pinpoint%3Aprophetexchange%3A605165 (read 2026-11-05).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Prophetexchange](https://alderhq.app/companies/prophetexchange)
- Location text: Remote - USA, New York
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Remote · United States (evidence: "Location: Remote - USA, New York")
- Posted: already open when tracking began; date unknown
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://prophetexchange.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/8879e30d-5b1a-418a-80c8-4705c8064186
- Skills listed (inferred): Python, Go, Java, C++, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $165k–$250k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (New York, n 4): p25 $211k, median $256k, p75 $306k

## Description (the employer's text)

### Role Overview

We’re looking for a Principal / Senior Staff Backend Engineer (IC5) to shape the technical strategy of ProphetX as a company. You’ll be a recognized technical authority who solves our hardest problems, sets multi-year architectural direction for our exchange platform, and multiplies the impact of the entire engineering organization.

### Responsibilities

### What You’ll Do

- Define the long-term technical strategy and architecture for the exchange platform, aligned to business and regulatory goals.
- Lead company-level technical initiatives with ambiguous scope and significant business risk or opportunity.
- Drive critical decisions on scalability, resilience, and security for systems operating in a CFTC-regulated environment.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies, build-versus-buy choices, and engineering practices at an organizational level.
- Advise executive and product leadership on technical feasibility, risk, and investment.
- Mentor staff and senior engineers, and help shape hiring, leveling, and engineering culture.
- Represent ProphetX’s engineering depth with partners, regulators, and the broader technical community where appropriate.
- Partner with product and leadership to influence roadmap and prioritization with technical insight.
- Proactively seek development opportunities and share knowledge with peers and junior engineers.
### Skills

### What We’re Looking For

- 10+ years of backend and distributed systems experience, including a track record of org- or company-wide technical impact
- Expert-level command of Go, Java, C++, or Python, and of large-scale system design
- Proven experience architecting and evolving mission-critical, low-latency, high-availability platforms (exchange, trading, payments, or comparable)
- Mastery of event-driven architecture, real-time APIs, data systems, and cloud-native infrastructure
- Deep experience with reliability, security, and compliance in regulated environments
- History of mentoring and growing senior and staff engineers
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, from engineers to executives
- Proactive, growth-focused, and highly adaptable with a strong sense of ownership
- Prediction markets, fintech, sports betting, or exchange experience is a plus
### Benefits

Compensation & Ownership

- Competitive compensation aligned to role and market
- Equity opportunities so you share in what we’re building
- A clear connection between impact and reward
Health & Wellbeing

- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible time off built on trust and accountability
- A culture that respects your time and avoids unnecessary meetings
Remote & Flexible Work

- Fully remote within the U.S.
- Flexibility to work in the way that helps you do your best work
The Role

- Set the multi-year technical direction for a live, CFTC-regulated exchange platform, as a recognized technical authority across the company
- Take on a high-impact IC role with direct influence on executive and product decisions, build-versus-buy choices, and engineering culture
- Help define what resilient, secure, and compliant exchange architecture looks like as a brand-new asset class scales

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