Score Engine Engineer

I am building a real-time fantasy soccer platform launching June 10th with the World Cup. I have an open source scoring engine as the base. I need a backend engineer to adapt it to our custom rules and integrate it with our live data feed. This is a flat-fee contract — $3,000–$4,500 for a defined deliverable. Paid in two tranches. Front-loaded work, most of it done in the first 30 days. U.S.-based, 1099. What I am looking for: — Comfortable working inside an existing open source codebase — Node.js background — Understands event-driven architecture — Enough soccer knowledge to sanity-check scoring logic — U.S.-based with a legal entity to receive 1099 payments 343 game|QA & Backend Engineer|Remote(US)|contract I am building a real-time fantasy soccer platform launching June 10th with the World Cup. Development team is in Eastern Europe and moving fast. I need a U.S.-based QA and backend engineer on a paid contract to supervise daily execution through launch. This is not a full-