Sports Data Integration Lead – Live Scores, Catalog, Rust

Job Description: • 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. Requirements: • 4–7+ 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. Benefits: • Deferred salary until funding is secured, meaning there is risk, it could take a few months could take longer. • Long-term ownership and technical leadership • A mission-driven, elite team with deep experience in sports, media, crypto, and startups • You’ll be one of the first engineers — which means maximum influence and upside.