Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. Weve built a social sports gaming experience that allows users to compete for leaderboard positioning to achieve badges and build their status within the game.
We are pioneering play-for-fun sports gaming with our flagship social sportsbook experience that includes sweepstakes promotions and loyalty rewards. We provide sports fans with fun engaging and free-to-play alternatives to real money gaming.
Fliff is building sports gaming and entertainment products for a fast-moving highly engaged audience. Behind every market event contest player prop and in-app experience is a data platform that needs to be accurate reliable and fast.
The DataFeed Team owns the systems that bring external sports data into Fliff: ingesting feeds normalizing provider-specific formats validating data quality and making that data available to the rest of the platform.
About The Role
We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer to help us build and evolve the core systems behind Fliffs sports data platform.
This is not a generic backend role. You will work close to the domain: sports events leagues teams players markets odds scores schedules and provider-specific edge cases. You will help make sure our data is correct timely observable and resilient when external feeds behave unpredictably.
Youll join a squad where engineering decisions have direct product impact. The systems you build will support real-time experiences across Fliff and help our teams move faster with confidence.
What Youll Do
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
What Were Looking For
5 years of strong production experience with Python
Experience designing and operating backend services in production
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
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 or similar technologies
Experience with Go / Golang especially for high-throughput backend services data processing or performance-sensitive systems
Experience with event-driven architecture or message queues
Experience building data validation reconciliation or replay systems
Cloud Docker Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code experience
Interest in using AI-assisted engineering tools thoughtfully to improve development speed and quality
What Makes This Role Interesting
Sports data is full of real-world complexity. Providers disagree. Events change. Markets open and close. Names IDs schedules scores and statuses need to be mapped checked and trusted.
In the DataFeed Squad youll work on systems where correctness matters latency matters and operational visibility matters. Youll have room to shape architecture improve reliability and build tools that make the whole engineering organization more effective.
We are a multinational company with our headquarters based in Philadelphia and offices in New York Austin and Sofia Bulgaria. Wherever we are in the world we pride ourselves on being a close-knit focused team that is welcoming and friendly and the work that we do is always interesting and rewarding. Wherever we are in the world we pride ourselves on being a close-knit focused team that is:
Welcoming and Friendly
We want to reflect the diversity of the cities we serve. By creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive well make Fliff better for employees and customers alike.
Lively and Creative
We respect and value each others ideas experience and expertise. There is no such thing as a bad idea; only ideas that are executed and ideas that are discarded after consideration.
Stimulating and Rewarding
We know bright minds love a challenge and we understand your desire to see your hard work pay off. Well make sure your daily tasks align with your career ambitions as we grow together.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Fliff is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.
Join Our Team!
If youre ready to be part of an exciting innovative and dynamic team apply now to help shape the future of sports gaming with Fliff.
Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. Weve built a social sports gaming experience that allows users to compete for leaderboard positioning to achieve badges and build their status within the game.We are pioneering play-for-fun sports gaming with ou...
Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. Weve built a social sports gaming experience that allows users to compete for leaderboard positioning to achieve badges and build their status within the game.
We are pioneering play-for-fun sports gaming with our flagship social sportsbook experience that includes sweepstakes promotions and loyalty rewards. We provide sports fans with fun engaging and free-to-play alternatives to real money gaming.
Fliff is building sports gaming and entertainment products for a fast-moving highly engaged audience. Behind every market event contest player prop and in-app experience is a data platform that needs to be accurate reliable and fast.
The DataFeed Team owns the systems that bring external sports data into Fliff: ingesting feeds normalizing provider-specific formats validating data quality and making that data available to the rest of the platform.
About The Role
We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer to help us build and evolve the core systems behind Fliffs sports data platform.
This is not a generic backend role. You will work close to the domain: sports events leagues teams players markets odds scores schedules and provider-specific edge cases. You will help make sure our data is correct timely observable and resilient when external feeds behave unpredictably.
Youll join a squad where engineering decisions have direct product impact. The systems you build will support real-time experiences across Fliff and help our teams move faster with confidence.
What Youll Do
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
What Were Looking For
5 years of strong production experience with Python
Experience designing and operating backend services in production
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
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 or similar technologies
Experience with Go / Golang especially for high-throughput backend services data processing or performance-sensitive systems
Experience with event-driven architecture or message queues
Experience building data validation reconciliation or replay systems
Cloud Docker Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code experience
Interest in using AI-assisted engineering tools thoughtfully to improve development speed and quality
What Makes This Role Interesting
Sports data is full of real-world complexity. Providers disagree. Events change. Markets open and close. Names IDs schedules scores and statuses need to be mapped checked and trusted.
In the DataFeed Squad youll work on systems where correctness matters latency matters and operational visibility matters. Youll have room to shape architecture improve reliability and build tools that make the whole engineering organization more effective.
We are a multinational company with our headquarters based in Philadelphia and offices in New York Austin and Sofia Bulgaria. Wherever we are in the world we pride ourselves on being a close-knit focused team that is welcoming and friendly and the work that we do is always interesting and rewarding. Wherever we are in the world we pride ourselves on being a close-knit focused team that is:
Welcoming and Friendly
We want to reflect the diversity of the cities we serve. By creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive well make Fliff better for employees and customers alike.
Lively and Creative
We respect and value each others ideas experience and expertise. There is no such thing as a bad idea; only ideas that are executed and ideas that are discarded after consideration.
Stimulating and Rewarding
We know bright minds love a challenge and we understand your desire to see your hard work pay off. Well make sure your daily tasks align with your career ambitions as we grow together.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Fliff is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.
Join Our Team!
If youre ready to be part of an exciting innovative and dynamic team apply now to help shape the future of sports gaming with Fliff.
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