Platform Engineer

Location: Edinburgh / Hybrid

Department: Platform Engineering

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 ROSTER…

At FanDuel, we give fans a new and innovative way to interact with their favorite games, sports and teams. We’re dedicated to building a winning team and we pride ourselves on being able to make every moment mean more, especially when it comes to your career. So, what does “winning” look like at FanDuel? It’s recognition for your hard-earned results, a culture that brings out your best work—and a roster full of talented coworkers. Make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From creatives professionals to cutting edge technology innovators, FanDuel offers a wide range of career opportunities, best in class benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. At FanDuel, our principle of “We Are One Team” runs through all our offices across the globe, and you can expect to be a part of an exciting company with many opportunities to grow and be successful.

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

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join our Cloud Fabric team in our Platform Engineering organization. The Cloud Fabric team builds platform-level tooling, used company-wide to support large-scale & complex application microservice architectures across several dozen target deployment locations under unique geographic and regulatory constraints. To support our application engineers, this team defines our microservice communication architecture via API gateways and supports our service discovery & service mesh implementations.

We are looking for passionate & experienced 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 both learn from and educate others. In this role you will work amongst multidisciplinary teams, tackling complex problems to create world class infrastructure as we continuously build out our exciting and innovative developer experience.

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

• Ability to work with the team to implement tools for effective service communication and service management to enhance our development processes and streamline integration.

• Collaborate with fellow engineers to ensure the timely achievement of high-integrity project deadlines.

• Partner closely with FanDuel product teams to identify and address service communication challenges and pain points.

• Understand the ecosystem of FanDuel’s complex development environment with multiple business units.

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

• Proficient in software development languages (e.g. Go, Python, etc..)

• Experience building microservice based APIs and knowledge of API patterns (OpenAPI, GraphQL, REST, etc..) and associated tools

• Hands-on Public Cloud development (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Experience in supporting an API ecosystem (API gateways, etc) and/or service discovery & service mesh implementations

• Resource management and provisioning with Infrastructure as Code (Iac), specifically Terraform

• Well-versed with a collaboration and project management tracking tools (Confluence, Jira)

• Skilled with container technologies (Kubernetes, EKS, Docker)

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right

From our many opportunities for professional development to our generous insurance and paid leave policies, we’re committed to making sure our employees get as much out of FanDuel as we ask them to give. Competitive compensation is just the beginning. As part of our team, you can expect:

• An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth

• Opportunities to build really cool products that fans love

• Mentorship and professional development resources to help you refine your game

• Be well, save well and live well - with FanDuel Total Rewards your benefits are one highlight reel after another

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.