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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

• 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