Senior Software Engineer

The Account vertical sits within the Core Products & Experiences (CPE) group, which provides core acquisition, onboarding, management and protection customer journeys. Its remit is to enable customers to sign up and manage all details of their user accounts across FanDuel products. The role involves working in empowered, multidisciplinary teams to tackle complex challenges and build experiences and products for a growing community of millions of players.

• Own parts of product and technology and strive to become a subject matter expert.
• Write simple, extendable, stable and performant code following standards and best practices, testing thoroughly and balancing customer requirements with team requirements.
• Take responsibility for the state of code inherited and produced.
• Help the team evolve by participating in code review, design discussions, team planning and support ticket reviews.
• Take on projects and make software enhancements that improve team software and processes.
• Resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain.
• Estimate stories and tasks accurately and deliver them on time.
• Keep up to date with industry tools, utilities, open-source frameworks and market standards.
• Participate in the interview process, help train other Software Engineers, and participate in the on-call support rotation.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Company.

• Experience writing distributed, highly scalable and available backend systems and APIs using Java, Python or similar programming languages.
• A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• A good grasp of relational and non-relational databases, messaging queues and handling concurrency.
• Knowledge of release process best practices for APIs and services within production systems.
• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies.
• Understanding of DevOps concepts such as containers (e.g. Docker), orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. CloudFormation or Terraform).
• Comfort working on the frontend (React).
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive.
• Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence and software best practices.
• Experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC.
• Desire to learn and develop skills through a growth mindset.
• Passion for working within a fast-paced environment and ability to adapt to change.
• Confidence to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems, and eagerness to learn from and educate others.
• Strong communication skills.
• Proficiency in a broad range of design approaches and judgement on when to use them.

• Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with AWS.

• The company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Jersey City, Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Portugal, Romania and Australia.

• Best-in-class benefits.
• Generous insurance and paid leave policies.
• FanDuel Total Rewards benefits.
• Career and professional development resources to help employees own and drive their career and development.
• Opportunities to build products that fans love.
• An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth.
• Many opportunities for professional development.

It operates a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering, including FanDuel Sportsbook, FanDuel Casino, FanDuel Racing, daily fantasy sports, FanDuel TV and FanDuel TV+. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator, traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).