Software Engineer

Location: Edinburgh / Hybrid

Department: Software Engineering

Software Engineer

Payments Team 

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! 

Our roster has an opening with your name on it 

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our new 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 withdrawals, deposits, refunds 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 value strong technical skills, operational excellence, and the ability to work effectively in a regulated environment. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Create high quality code 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
• 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

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 work on really cool products that fans love
• Career and professional development resources to help you refine your game plan for owning and driving your career and development
• Be well, save well and live well - with FanDuel Total Rewards your benefits are one highlight reel after another 

The Interview Process 

• Recruiter screening
• Technical test  
• System design test (full-stack complexity)
• Behavioral interview 

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]. 

Location: Our Scottish tech hub is based in central Edinburgh and is fitted with fabulous amenities including a gym, showers, bike parking, gaming pods, multiple breakout areas, meeting rooms, a roof terrace and much more. We operate a hybrid model for this role, where we normally spend around one day in the office per week.