Esports
Data API Engineer
Mid Level
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
in office
Full time
Job description
About the Role
Is for a Data API Engineer (a Software Engineer with an interest in data applications) to join a growing team and help build applications with REST API endpoints that provide recommendations based on data pipelines, ML models, and infrastructure powering analytics, machine learning, and business and customer insights across the company. The engineer will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of reliable Fraud recommendation applications while collaborating with stakeholders to support high-impact data use cases.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable Python Flask API applications or similar programming languages to achieve low latency response.
- Implement REST API endpoints on Kubernetes clusters using API Gateway like KONG.
- Ensure API response is reliable, accurate, and delivered in a timely manner.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code and test cases.
- Partner with Senior Engineers in code reviews, design discussions, planning sessions and team ceremonies, asking questions and sharing ideas.
- Work with data analysts, data scientists, and product managers to understand requirements and deliver actionable data solutions.
- Translate business questions into engineering tasks and contribute to technical planning.
- Monitor applications and troubleshoot issues in a timely, systematic manner.
- Implement data quality checks and contribute to observability and testing practices.
- Document data sources, transformations, and architecture decisions to support long-term maintainability.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Strong technical contributor with experience building software and data applications at scale, solving practical problems, and continuously learning in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience developing batch and stream data ingestion or applications using SQL databases such as Postgres DB or NoSQL/Redis DB.
- Understanding of containerisation and Kubernetes deployment using ArgoCD.
- Experience with Python and SQL.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Pyspark (optional).
About the Company
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).
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