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 and handle differences in 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 system observability
• ▹Collaborate with backend, product, trading, QA, and platform teams
• ▹Contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, 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 experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL
• ▹Experience integrating with external APIs, feeds, or third-party data providers
• ▹Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging production systems
• ▹Willingness to participate in on-call rotations

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in sports betting, gaming, fantasy sports, sports data, fintech, or trading
• ▹Experience with Django, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL

Soft skills

About the company

Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social, free-to-play games with leaderboards and rewards. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, with offices in New York, Austin, and Sofia, Bulgaria.