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.
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 Position
FanDuel is hiring for a Frontend Software Engineer, with JavaScript or TypeScript experience based within one of our teams in the Account vertical who focus on acquisitions (our offer to sign-up pipeline for customers). There is an interesting element of research and development as the team investigates various offers and aims to offer further personalisation to our potential customers.
As a software engineer, you will work in empowered, multidisciplinary teams, collaboratively tackling complex challenges that provide the very best experiences and products for a growing community of millions of players.
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
- Experience and passion working with web libraries and frameworks, such as React and Typescript.
- A strong sense of ownership.
- Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and software best practices.
- Experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC.
- Experience writing distributed, highly scalable and available backend systems & APIs using Java or similar programming languages (would be a bonus!)
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.
The Interview Process
1. Recruiter Screen – 30 mins
2. Competency Interview – 60 mins
3. Paired Programming (JavaScript) Interview – 60 mins
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We endeavour to make our interview process as accessible as possible. If you need any assistance prior to your interview, including any reasonable adjustments, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
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.
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 the majority of our roles, where we normally spend a day or two in the office per week.