Wall Street Football

Data Engineer

WSF Odds is the first B2B supplier of pre-match and live odds on real performances of football players, providing the most accurate pricing for football players and building high quality products for the sports data industry.

Our core-asset is a fully-automated mathematical and statistical model integrated with machine learning for analyzing data and forecasting future player achievements and actions  through a modular and scalable low latency platform that processes thousands of events from the pitch in milliseconds.

We already launched our products for online betting markets and we are currently operating within multiple global markets in partnership with top tier operators. 

WSF Odds vision is to expand its products to additional sports and to extend its portfolio with further innovative betting solutions.

WSF Odds is part of Wall Street Football.  

Wall Street Football is to lead the data-centric and tech-centric revolution that will disrupt every aspect of sports and build technologies that valorise sports data in order to connect all sports related services from media and sport analytics, to fan engagement and sport betting. WSF is operating in several industries through a few controlled or participated companies that work synergically:

What are we looking for

We are looking for a talented and experienced Data Engineer to join the WSF Odds tech team and help us build and improve our data infrastructure, contributing to our journey of redefining sports analytics.

You will collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and build a data infrastructure that is scalable, performant and easily accessible.

You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the day to day development and maintenance of our existing products in a full Agile environment.

This is a remote working opportunity.

Key responsibilities

You will have the chance to be an active participant in product discussions and decisions in a fast-paced and quickly growing environment in which you will be responsible to:

  • Design, implement and maintain a scalable and robust data architecture.
  • Develop and maintain data pipelines for efficient data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) processes.
  • Integrate data from various sources such as external APIs and third-party data providers.
  • Ensure data integrity, reliability, and performance in data processing workflows.
  • Administer and optimize databases for performance and reliability.
  • Work alongside the product team to implement and maintain new features for our existing products.

You will have the chance to be an active participant in product discussions and decisions in a fast-paced and quickly growing environment.

Key qualifications

Must have

  • 3+ years of proven experience in data engineering, ETL processes, and database management.
  • 3+ years of proven experience with Python.
  • Working experience with Java/Spring.
  • Working experience with ETL orchestration tools such (eg. Prefect, Airflow)
  • Familiarity with cloud-based services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) to deploy and manage data infrastructure.
  • Working experience with data warehouse and data lake solutions (eg. AWS RedShift, AWS S3)
  • Fluent in English

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Apache Kafka and communication in distributed systems
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
  • Experience working with Reactive programming
  • Familiarity with integrating sport data providers such as Wyscout, Opta and StatsBomb.
  • NoSQL database experience (MongoDB preferred)
  • Passionate about sports and game analytics

Why join us

We are an innovative start-up, legally based in Italy, with a team spread around multiple European countries and looking at the global market.

  • Start-up – Join us from the beginning and partake in its success!
  • Talented and fun colleagues – People with previous experiences in some of the best companies in the world (Google, Yahoo, Airbnb, etc.)!
  • Flexible schedule – Work from anywhere, be responsible for your work, no matter where you are or what schedule you are keeping!
  • Innovative and inspiring environment – We are continually changing, evolving, growing. We embrace innovation and each of your ideas can have a huge impact!
  • Entertaining and collaborative team – Participate in exciting team experiences and continuously propose new ideas in design brainstorming sessions!
  • Cutting-edge technologies – Work with latest technologies applied to the most interesting fields: sports and data!

Send your CV to info@wallstreetfootball.io

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