Social sports predictions for the next generation of fans
Senior Python Engineer, DataFeed Team
Location
Serbia
Posted
10 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Python Engineer, DataFeed Team
Fliff Inc
• 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
Job 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
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