The Role
Owner of backend Wallet services: design, implement, deploy, and support scalable Python/Django systems for wallets, bets, settlements, deposits/withdrawals. Build high-load, reliable services with async components, testing, monitoring, and participate in estimations, code reviews, and on-call rotations.
Summary Generated by Built In
Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social, free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. We've 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.
About The Role
We’re looking for a Senior Python Engineer to join our Wallet team, which owns critical services in our product. The team is responsible for players’ wallets, bet placement, settlements, deposits and withdrawals, and other critical backend services. We’re looking for engineers with strong backend fundamentals and experience building reliable, high-load systems with complex business logic.
What You’ll Do
- Take full ownership of backend features and improvements, from design through implementation, deployment, and production support
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services using Python and Django, including asynchronous components where applicable
- Write unit and integration tests to ensure system reliability, prevent regressions, and improve overall test coverage and testing practices
- Estimate software development effort for features and long-term technical initiatives
- Collaborate with product, QA, and engineering teams to turn requirements into well-defined technical solutions
- Participate in code reviews, help raise engineering quality, and contribute to technical decisions
What We're Looking For
- At least 5+ years of development experience, with Python as the primary language
- Strong experience building production backend systems with Django and asynchronous python (asyncio)
- Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures and concurrency
- Experience in architecture design of highly loaded and scalable solutions
- Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL), including writing complex SQL queries, schema design, migrations, performance tuning
- Experience with Redis for caching and state management in distributed systems
- Strong understanding of the development cycle from requirements analysis and deployment to application monitoring
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations
Nice To Have
- Experience with Go
- Production experience with Apache Kafka
- Prior experience working with systems supporting 1M+ users
- Experience in writing automated tests, measuring test coverage, and defining test automation strategies
- Experience in sports/betting industries
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, we’ll make Fliff better for employees and customers alike.
Lively and Creative
We respect and value each other’s 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. We’ll 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 you're 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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Skills Required
- 5+ years development experience with Python as primary language
- Production backend development with Django
- Experience with asynchronous Python (asyncio)
- Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and concurrency
- Architecture design experience for highly loaded, scalable systems
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL including complex queries, schema design, migrations, and performance tuning
- Experience with Redis for caching and state management in distributed systems
- Writing unit and integration tests and improving test coverage/testing practices
- Understanding of full development cycle, deployment, and application monitoring
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations
- Experience with Go
- Production experience with Apache Kafka
- Prior experience supporting 1M+ users
- Experience in sports/betting industries
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The Company
What We Do
Fliff is a minor leagues for sports bettors. Our social and sweepstakes prediction games offer a new way to have skin-in-the-game that is simpler, interactive, and always free to play. By pairing the social treasures of sports gaming with limitless rewards, sports fans can sweat the game without sweating the losses. Fliff combines the best of social gaming, fantasy sports, and sports betting into a fun and easy to use experience.
