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Fliff is seeking a Python Team Lead to lead and grow their Integration team. You will provide leadership for a team of at least 3 engineers while taking full ownership of backend features and improvements across the entire lifecycle—from design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
You will design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services using Python and Django. A core responsibility is building and maintaining integrations with external systems including KYC providers, geolocation services, payment partners, and other third-party services. You'll work closely with product and engineering teams to scope and deliver new integrations, ensuring they meet business and technical requirements.
Observability is critical in this role. You will implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting across integration flows to ensure reliability and quick incident response. You'll also drive testing excellence by writing unit and integration tests, preventing regressions, and establishing testing practices and coverage standards across the team.
You will support production issues and participate in on-call rotations, taking ownership of system reliability and customer impact.
Requirements:
- Experience leading and managing a team of at least 3 engineers
- At least 5+ years of development experience, with Python as the primary language
- Strong experience in API and system integrations
- Proven experience integrating third-party APIs, with deep understanding of webhooks, callbacks, idempotency, and failure handling (payments and KYC integrations are a strong plus)
- Experience with observability tools to monitor and troubleshoot production integrations
- Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and concurrency
- Experience in architecture design of highly loaded and scalable solutions
- Strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to deployment and production monitoring
Great to have:
- Experience in early-stage startups and fast-paced engineering environments
- Experience writing automated tests, measuring test coverage, and defining test automation strategies
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, or Grafana
- Experience in sports/betting industries
