Sports Data Integration Lead-Live Scores & Catalog (Enetpulse, Wikipedia) Rust

Austin, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 29 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Core responsibilities

Integrate and operate Enetpulse APIs (auth rate limits retries monitoring alerting cost control).
Model and store entities (teams competitions seasons fixtures results) in normalized schemas.
Build/own the canonical Club Catalog: de-dupe reconcile IDs and enforce exclusion of academy/youth teams.
Create matching/merging rules (string/locale normalization fuzzy matching synonym maps alias tables).
Ship data pipelines for ingest validation QA and backfills (batch near-real-time).
Deliver internal curation tools (admin UI/endpoints) for manual overrides and audits.
Define and track data SLOs (freshness accuracy uptime) and incident response playbooks.
Document data contracts versioning and change-management; collaborate with backend/app teams.
Expand coverage beyond football (basketball baseball motorsport etc.) with sport-specific taxonomies.

Qualifications :

Minimum requirements

47 years in backend or data engineering with production APIs and ETL/ELT pipelines.
Strong with one or more: Python Go or Rust; plus SQL (Postgres/MySQL/BigQuery).
Experience integrating third-party data providers (ideally sports) and operating them in production.
Data modeling entity resolution and de-duplication at scale (tens of thousands of entities).
Hands-on with queues/streams and jobs (e.g. Kafka/Kinesis/SQS Celery/Sidekiq/Temporal).
AWS (or similar): Lambda/EC2/ECS API Gateway S3 CloudWatch IAM basics.
Comfort designing monitors dashboards and alerts; writing clean docs and runbooks.
Sports domain literacy across multiple sports with deep comfort in club/competition structures.

Nice to have

Direct Enetpulse experience; familiarity with other providers (Opta/Stats Perform/Sportradar).
Rust in production (our core stack) Graph databases for ID graphs dbt for transformations.
i18n/locale handling; knowledge of naming conventions across Europe/LatAm.
Built internal catalog/admin tools; basic front-end for ops dashboards is a plus.

Additional Information :

Solutions not problems .

Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization. Not interested in best practices lets build something better!
Ability to adapt. An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies.
Comfortable with ambiguity shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus
We are offering:
Deferred salary until funding is secured meaning there is risk it could take a few months could take longer.
All current team members are working on a deferred compensation basis we lost our funding two months ago and made the decision to build while we raise. This comes with real risk. Closing funding could take two months or it could take five but were committed to this vision and were looking for someone whos equally passionate and resilient.
Long-term ownership and technical leadership
A mission-driven elite team with deep experience in sports media crypto and startups
Youll be one of the first engineers which means maximum influence and upside.

Ole Ole is located in beautiful Austin Texas however this role requires some travel we are privately held and rapidly growing!

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

Core responsibilitiesIntegrate and operate Enetpulse APIs (auth rate limits retries monitoring alerting cost control).Model and store entities (teams competitions seasons fixtures results) in normalized schemas.Build/own the canonical Club Catalog: de-dupe reconcile IDs and enforce exclusion of acad...

Core responsibilities

Integrate and operate Enetpulse APIs (auth rate limits retries monitoring alerting cost control).
Model and store entities (teams competitions seasons fixtures results) in normalized schemas.
Build/own the canonical Club Catalog: de-dupe reconcile IDs and enforce exclusion of academy/youth teams.
Create matching/merging rules (string/locale normalization fuzzy matching synonym maps alias tables).
Ship data pipelines for ingest validation QA and backfills (batch near-real-time).
Deliver internal curation tools (admin UI/endpoints) for manual overrides and audits.
Define and track data SLOs (freshness accuracy uptime) and incident response playbooks.
Document data contracts versioning and change-management; collaborate with backend/app teams.
Expand coverage beyond football (basketball baseball motorsport etc.) with sport-specific taxonomies.

Qualifications :

Minimum requirements

47 years in backend or data engineering with production APIs and ETL/ELT pipelines.
Strong with one or more: Python Go or Rust; plus SQL (Postgres/MySQL/BigQuery).
Experience integrating third-party data providers (ideally sports) and operating them in production.
Data modeling entity resolution and de-duplication at scale (tens of thousands of entities).
Hands-on with queues/streams and jobs (e.g. Kafka/Kinesis/SQS Celery/Sidekiq/Temporal).
AWS (or similar): Lambda/EC2/ECS API Gateway S3 CloudWatch IAM basics.
Comfort designing monitors dashboards and alerts; writing clean docs and runbooks.
Sports domain literacy across multiple sports with deep comfort in club/competition structures.

Nice to have

Direct Enetpulse experience; familiarity with other providers (Opta/Stats Perform/Sportradar).
Rust in production (our core stack) Graph databases for ID graphs dbt for transformations.
i18n/locale handling; knowledge of naming conventions across Europe/LatAm.
Built internal catalog/admin tools; basic front-end for ops dashboards is a plus.

Additional Information :

Solutions not problems .

Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization. Not interested in best practices lets build something better!
Ability to adapt. An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies.
Comfortable with ambiguity shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus
We are offering:
Deferred salary until funding is secured meaning there is risk it could take a few months could take longer.
All current team members are working on a deferred compensation basis we lost our funding two months ago and made the decision to build while we raise. This comes with real risk. Closing funding could take two months or it could take five but were committed to this vision and were looking for someone whos equally passionate and resilient.
Long-term ownership and technical leadership
A mission-driven elite team with deep experience in sports media crypto and startups
Youll be one of the first engineers which means maximum influence and upside.

Ole Ole is located in beautiful Austin Texas however this role requires some travel we are privately held and rapidly growing!

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

Key Skills

APIs
Jenkins
REST
Python
SOAP
Systems Engineering
Service-Oriented Architecture
Java
XML
JSON
Scripting
Sftp

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