The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you.
ABOUT FANDUEL GROUP
FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans every day. That’s no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging, we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.
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
FanDuel is seeking a back-end software engineer to join the core team driving the technology behind our Generosity strategy. In this role, you will play a vital part in enhancing a suite of services that constitute our central promotions platform, utilised across all FanDuel products.
As FanDuel expands, the demand on our promotions platform continues to rise, accompanied by an ambitious generosity strategy. This is an excellent opportunity for individuals eager to gain experience in system optimisation, scalability and performance while contributing to our industry-leading platform.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Owning parts of the product and technology, striving to become a subject matter expert
- Writing simple and extendable code following standards and best practices, testing your own code.
- Helping your team evolve by engaging in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and support ticket reviews.
- Taking on projects and make software enhancements that improve the team software and processes.
- Working to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it.
- Estimating stories/tasks accurately and deliver them in time. You keep yourself up to date with industry tools, utilities, and open-source frameworks.
What We’re Looking For
- Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience
- Experience in developing distributed, highly scalable and available backend systems and APIs using Java
- Experience in writing automated (unit, component and integration) tests
- Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS
- Experience working on critical systems (ideally high volume and at scale) and understanding of operational excellence and best practices that apply to meet the associated challenges
- Familiarity with software projects leveraging shared (multi-team/org) contribution model
- Familiarity working in an Agile environment
- Understanding non-relational databases, messaging queues, event streaming and concurrency
- Awareness of DevOps concepts and CI/CD practices
What You Can Expect
- Interesting work - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons
- A sense of achievement - Our teams own their own software and when that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created
- Personal development - clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, loads of learning opportunities and even 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.
- Belonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together and have lots of fun doing it.
- Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work
- Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefits.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.
The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you!
