Senior Software Engineer

Location: Edinburgh / Hybrid

Department: Software Engineering

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! 

The Position

Our roster has an opening with your name on it 

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Payments team and build critical systems that power millions of transactions for sports fans across the US. This role will focus on systems and integrations with 3rd parties for deposits, refunds, withdrawals, and more. This is a critical team within FanDuel that interacts with a lot of internal and external engineering teams, so the service needs to be fast, reliable, and high quality! 

You'll be part of a collaborative team that values strong technical skills, operational excellence, and the ability to work effectively in a regulated environment. 

The Role

• Create high quality code and architecture to further our systems and technical solutions in the payments space (using Java, Spring Boot, React and some Python)
• Focus on operational excellence (leaving things better than when you found them)
• Actively participate in sprint ceremonies like daily huddles, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective
• Mentoring more junior or newer members of the team to ensure they can contribute productively quicker
• Engage in code reviews and pair-programming
• Problem-solve and debug code, including production support
• Work with AWS cloud services for deployment and infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with internal and external engineering teams 

What We’re Looking For

Technical Skills: 

• Strong focus in Java OR react (with the ability to contribute across the stack)
• Hands-on cloud experience (we use AWS)
• Testing experience and willingness to take ownership of code quality
• DevOps and operational deployment experience beneficial 
• Production support environment experience  

Background & Mindset: 

• Strong collaboration skills  
• Good listener who values teamwork over dogmatic approaches
• Comfortable with operational responsibilities and on-call duties (up to around 1 week every two months)
• Autonomous working style with hands-on technical approach 

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.

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).

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.

FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please email [email protected].