Senior Python Engineer, DataFeed Team

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design, build and maintain Python services for sports data ingestion, transformation and distribution
• ▹Integrate with third-party sports data providers, handling differences in models, formats and update patterns
• ▹Build reliable pipelines for near real-time and batch data processing
• ▹Improve data validation, reconciliation, monitoring, alerting and replay tooling
• ▹Work on domain models for events, competitions, participants, markets, odds and scores
• ▹Investigate production issues, trace data problems and improve observability
• ▹Collaborate with backend, product, trading, QA and platform teams
• ▹Contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, technical standards and mentoring

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of strong production experience with Python
• ▹Experience designing and operating backend services in production
• ▹Solid Django experience with asynchronous programming (asyncio)
• ▹Production experience with Apache Kafka
• ▹Solid understanding of APIs, distributed systems, async processing and data pipelines
• ▹Strong SQL skills and relational database experience, especially PostgreSQL
• ▹Experience integrating with external APIs, feeds or third-party data providers
• ▹Ability to reason carefully about data correctness, edge cases and failure modes
• ▹Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and debugging production systems
• ▹Senior ownership mindset: breaking down ambiguous problems, pragmatic decisions
• ▹Willingness to participate in on-call rotations

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in sports betting, gaming, fantasy sports, sports data, fintech, trading or other real-time data domains
• ▹Experience with Django, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL

Soft skills

About the company

Fliff builds social sports gaming products, offering free-to-play sportsbook experiences with sweepstakes promotions and loyalty rewards. Headquartered in Philadelphia, with offices in New York, Austin and Sofia, Bulgaria.