Senior Python Engineer – Contract

🕒 January 16

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Fliff Inc

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11 - 50 employees

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

💰 Venture Round on 2022-08

Gaming • Sports • B2C

Fliff Inc. is a social sportsbook platform that transforms sports predictions into a play-for-fun social game. The company provides users with free daily credits to make sports picks and earn rewards without requiring any purchase. Users can win Fliff Coins to progress in leaderboards and earn badges, and Fliff Cash in promotional games, which can be redeemed for prizes. Fliff emphasizes social interaction, offering challenges, loyalty rewards, and referral bonuses while remaining compliant with gaming regulations across the United States, excluding Washington.

📋 Description

• - Take full ownership of backend services from design through deployment, maintenance, and continuous improvement • - Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance distributed backend services using Python and Django • - Architect distributed systems to support millions of users with low latency and high availability • - Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to ship reliable features on aggressive timelines • - Lead and mentor junior engineers through code reviews, architectural discussions, and knowledge sharing • - Own critical backend infrastructure components: APIs, data pipelines, message brokers (Kafka), caching • - Optimize systems for throughput, latency, fault tolerance, and resilience under heavy load • - Implement robust testing strategies: unit, integration, and performance tests • - Drive continuous improvement of development processes and system observability (monitoring, logging) • - Participate in on-call rotations and support production issues as needed

🎯 Requirements

• - 5+ years of professional Python backend development experience with a proven track record of ownership and successful delivery • - Solid Django experience (not necessarily expert level), with asynchronous programming skills (asyncio) • - Production experience with Apache Kafka • - Strong experience with distributed systems (microservices or similar architecture) • - Experience deploying and managing containerized applications (Docker); Kubernetes experience is a plus • - Familiarity with any cloud provider (AWS preferred) • - Proficient with SQL databases, especially PostgreSQL; NoSQL is a plus • - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and test automation • - Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent) • - Strong problem-solving skills and comfort doing code reviews • - Prior experience working with systems supporting 1M+ users is a strong plus • - Comfortable working in Agile teams • - Strong sense of responsibility and commitment to shipping high-quality software • - Willingness to participate in on-call rotations

🏖️ Benefits

• - Fully remote work environment. • - Professional development opportunities in a dynamic, global setting. • - A supportive, collaborative, and knowledge-driven workplace. • - An engaging and challenging role with the freedom to innovate and develop effective solutions.