Senior Backend Engineer – LIVE Sports Data, Multi-Sport Platform

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Travoom

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

✈️ Travel

Consulting • Marketing • Travel

Travoom is a trusted domain and service provider that has been in operation since 1999. The company offers a variety of digital services, including domain registration, web hosting, and collaboration tools through platforms like Google Workspace. Additionally, Travoom specializes in aiding corporate brands to manage, monitor, and protect their digital assets. The company is highly regarded and has been recognized as the Best Corporate Domain Registrar by financial strategists.

📋 Description

• Build and manage global LIVE Scores infrastructure across football, basketball, Formula 1, cricket, golf, boxing, tennis, and other sports • Integrate Enetpulse sports-data APIs • Develop a scalable, provider-independent backend supporting hundreds of competitions worldwide • Design the architecture to allow partial or complete replacement of Enetpulse with alternative data providers • Integrate sports-data APIs for live events, results, standings, rankings, fixtures, and statistics • Design flexible data models for team sports, motorsports, individual competitions, and combat sports • Build real-time data processing, synchronization, caching, and monitoring systems • Develop APIs supporting unique frontend experiences for each sport • Ensure data accuracy, reliability, scalability, and efficient provider switching • Connect sports information to OleOle’s existing microblogging platform without interfering with its 4U recommendation system • Independently architect, implement, test, and maintain production backend systems • Collaborate with existing frontend, design, frontend engineering, and UX/UI teams • Take full ownership of the LIVE Scores backend

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience • Strong proficiency in backend development using Node.js, Python, Go, Java, or similar technologies • Proven experience integrating complex third-party APIs and external data providers • Experience designing scalable, real-time data processing systems • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, database optimization, and caching strategies • Experience with WebSockets, message queues, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems • Ability to design flexible, provider-independent data models and API architectures • Experience handling high-volume data synchronization, error recovery, and fault tolerance • Strong understanding of REST APIs, data normalization, and microservices • Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure • Ability to independently architect, implement, test, and maintain production backend systems • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate with frontend engineers and UX/UI designers • Experience with sports-data providers such as Enetpulse, Sportradar, SportsDataIO, or similar platforms is highly desirable • Familiarity with LIVE Scores, sports statistics, rankings, standings, or sports betting data is a significant advantage • Ability to understand and model fundamentally different sporting structures across team and individual sports • Understanding of football and international sports is a huge plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely • Opportunity to work on a global social network and messaging platform • Hands-on leadership and technology ownership opportunity • Work with a broad array of technologies • Rapidly growing, privately held company • Some travel opportunity