Staff 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

FanDuel is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Responsible Gaming team. You will play a key role in creating best-in-class regulatory experiences for our customers by building scalable, flexible solutions that satisfy regulatory requirements across the US and Canada. As a Staff Software Engineer, 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.

Our Responsible Gaming team's mission is to create a best-in-class regulatory experience for our customers. We do this by working with internal stakeholders and our Regulatory Partners to build scalable, flexible solutions to satisfy regulatory requirements in jurisdictions across the US and Canada. We strive to build internal tools that have clear contracts and are easy to integrate with to enable teams across FanDuel’s portfolio.

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 execute large projects to a very high standard — e.g. against a tight deadline with significant consequences of failure, or in a manner that allows rapid learning to clarify significant ambiguity, or to a standard of quality well exceeding that of the current system
• You make correct technology choices for components needed as part of a larger architecture, including making build vs buy choices for specific components, and choosing frameworks
• You are capable of owning the overall health and engineering quality of a system or collection of features - e.g. driving regular health reviews, curating test strategy, etc. - and ensuring that the health and maintenance of my systems do not depend on the maintainers having my expertise
• You design software components that are difficult to misuse and flexible in the face of an increase in the number of adjacent use cases as appropriate to the direction of the business (neither under nor over-designed)
• You reduce complex designs and concepts to simple foundational components through correct choices of data structures, applications of algorithms, or other deep insight into the problem space and create simple interfaces to complex underlying systems
• When necessary, you are able to help my manager introduce change into the organization. I help others understand the business case, create excitement for and drive adoption of this change
• You invest time to coach and mentor my teammates (particularly ones looking to grow into L4/L5). I consider their skills, backgrounds, working styles and solicit and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback to them
• You act as a partner to your manager in setting the cultural tone for the team. I help create an inclusive environment of psychological safety to support connection, empathy, and productive conflict where dissenting, and diverse opinions are valued and addressed
• You have a holistic view of the engineering org, customer insights and FanDuel's goals and use my experience and judgment to make decisions optimized for the wider org, rather than my local project alone
• 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 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

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience and passion for writing highly scalable, fault tolerant and always available backend systems & APIs using Java or similar Object-Oriented programming languages
• Experience and passion in building web apps using React (JavaScript or TypeScript) or hybrid apps using React native, or similar (Angular/Vue)
• 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
• Understanding 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
• Don't check all the boxes? That's okay! We encourage you to apply if you possess adjacent skill sets and are interested in learning more about this position.

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right

We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits. We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits , pet insurance, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards. *Benefits differ across location, role, and level.

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 another 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 $150,000 - $196,000 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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