Senior Python Engineer, DataFeed Team

Posted 17hrs ago

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Senior Python Engineer developing and maintaining data ingestion and processing systems for Fliff's sports gaming platform. Collaborating with teams to improve data flow reliability and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain Python services for sports data ingestion, transformation, and distribution
  • Integrate with third-party sports data providers and handle differences between provider 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, scores, and related sports entities
  • Investigate production issues, trace data problems, and improve system observability
  • Collaborate with backend, product, trading, QA, and platform teams to deliver dependable data flows
  • Contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, technical standards, and mentoring within the squad

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of strong production experience with Python
  • Experience designing and operating backend services in production
  • Solid Django experience (not necessarily expert level), with asynchronous programming skills (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
  • Ability to reason carefully about data correctness, edge cases, and failure modes
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging production systems
  • A senior ownership mindset: you can break down ambiguous problems, make pragmatic technical decisions, and communicate clearly
  • Strong problem-solving skills and comfort doing code reviews
  • Willingness to participate in on-call rotations

Benefits:

  • Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
  • Work with a close-knit and friendly team
  • Opportunities for innovative and dynamic projects