Python Engineer (Contract)

Fliff is a multinational company headquartered in Philadelphia with offices in New York, Austin, and Sofia, Bulgaria. The company develops social, free-to-play sports gaming experiences that allow users to compete for leaderboard positioning, achieve badges, and build their status within the game. Fliff pioneers play-for-fun sports gaming with a flagship social sportsbook experience including sweepstakes promotions and loyalty rewards, providing fun, engaging, and free-to-play alternatives to real money gaming.

• 3+ years of professional Python backend development experience
• Solid experience with Django and asynchronous Python (asyncio)
• Exposure to Apache Kafka or similar message brokers in production
• Experience with Docker containerization
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS or others)
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL or relational databases
• Experience writing automated tests
• Comfortable with CI/CD workflows and monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus)
• Good English communication skills
• Ability to work in Agile teams and perform code reviews
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes experience
• Knowledge of frontend technologies (React)
• Exposure to event sourcing and CQRS
• Experience with big data frameworks like Flink

• Take ownership of assigned backend features and services from development through deployment and support
• Develop backend APIs and services using Python and Django
• Work on message-driven systems (Kafka)
• Write clean, reliable, and well-tested code (unit and integration tests)
• Collaborate with team members to design scalable solutions and meet delivery deadlines
• Participate in code reviews
• Assist in the deployment and maintenance of containerized services
• Support cloud-based environments and CI/CD pipelines
• Participate in on-call rotations and production support

This role requires full working-hour alignment with Central European Time (CET ±2 hours) to enable daily, real-time collaboration with the Sofia-based team. Only candidates located within this time zone range will be considered. Applicants outside CET ±2 hours will not be considered.

Fliff is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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