Senior Software Engineer

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.  

In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

We’re looking for passionate technologists, strong communicators and those with a commitment to continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have the confidence to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems and be eager to learn from and educate others. As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you will work in empowered, multidisciplinary teams, autonomously tackling complex challenges that provide the very best experiences and products for a growing community of millions of players. 

You use technology to solve straightforward problems, seeking input and guidance from team members. You may create or have responsibility to improve or invent small tools or applications. You can take defined design and turn it into code and deliver it on schedule, applying appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices. You write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects. You are proficient in a broad range of data structures and algorithms, knowing when it is appropriate to use them and when it is not. You make appropriate implementation trade-off decisions. You participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions. You seek to learn the business context and technologies behind your team's software. You work effectively with other team members & identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions. You invent, refine and develop your solutions to ensure they are meeting customer needs and team goals. You are a passionate advocate for your customer. 

Our Account Access team's mission is to own the customer’s personal data relating to their account (such as mailing address, user profile picture, account status, notification preferences etc), and provide frictionless access for customers to self-serve maintenance and inspection of this data. We will maintain PII and data usage ensuring legislative compliance to improve FanDuel’s risk stature, and act as the authority over a customer’s personal information held by FanDuel. 

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

• You own parts of product and technology & strive to become a subject matter expert.   
• You are responsible for designing the software or systems required in your area of ownership and ensuring that they meet their design objectives. 
• You can give quality feedback on designs written by other members of your team, asking probing, insightful questions that solidify choices and surface erroneous assumptions. 
• You effectively and quickly debug cross-module issues and may intuit where bugs might lie due to my deep knowledge of the libraries, platforms, and systems that my software relies on. 
• You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices. You test your code thoroughly. You help balance customer requirements with the team requirements.   
• You are responsible for designing the software or systems required in my area of ownership and ensuring that they meet their design objectives. 
• You can create coherent designs with multiple components interacting across API or system boundaries; bugs do not creep in at the boundaries between components due to mismatches in expectations of what is technically feasible. 
• You can roll out a component or major feature (and deprecating an existing system or feature) reliably - including appropriate monitoring, paging, etc. are in place, and that failure domains are understood and characterized appropriately before large scale rollout. For early-stage products, I can roll out with an eye toward achieving learning goals untainted by poor quality. 
• You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and support ticket reviews.    
• You take on projects and make software enhancements that improve the team software and processes.    
• You work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it.    
• You estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them in time. You keep yourself up to date with industry tools, utilities, and open-source frameworks.    
• You participate in the interview process and help your team train other Software Engineers 
• You will keep yourself up to date with market standards and open-source frameworks. 
• You participate in the on-call support rotation for your organization. 
• Most importantly, be humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm. 
  
  
  

THE STATS
What we're looking for in our next teammate

• Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience preferred.
• Experience and passion for writing highly scalable, fault tolerant and always available backend systems & APIs using Java or similar Object-Oriented programming languages. 
• Good grasp on relational, non-relational databases, messaging queues and handling concurrency.
• Understanding of modern architectures, design patterns, and platform nuances.
• Knowledge of release process best practices for APIs and services within production systems.
• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS. 
• Familiarity with defining infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar.
• Understating of containers (e.g. Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes). 
• Expert experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. 
• Familiarity working in an Agile environment.
• Passion for working within a fast-paced environment and can adapt to change.
  
  
  

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.

The applicable salary range for this position is $138,000- $181,650 USD, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

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