Senior Backend Engineer, Core Trading Systems

Senior Backend Engineer, Core Trading Systems

$200k – $260k • meaningful equity

About MAG

MAG is the market-making and proprietary trading arm of Novig. We provide liquidity across sportsrelated event-contract and prediction-market venues and run a proprietary book alongside the mandate. We operate lean by design. A small, senior team with direct exposure to trading, capital, and counterparty work, supported by Novig's broader platform.

With Novig recently becoming a CFTC-designated market — the fastest designation of its kind in US history— we're bringing the prediction market built for sports fans nationwide.

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

As a Senior Backend Engineer at MAG, you’ll build the core trading engine that powers our market-making and proprietary trading across multiple prediction-market and event-contract venues. You’ll own the infrastructure that connects to each venue, normalizes real-time market data, manages orders and positions, and enfo