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
We’re looking for a Lead (Fullstack) Software Engineer for our Core Marketing Platforms team, where we are building new products, features and services to support and enable FanDuel’s Marketing teams. This is a mission critical area for FanDuel and one which has significant investment.
- Take the long-term view and consider where each system is at in its life cycle and where appropriate, proactively fix architecture deficiencies.
- Make existing systems simpler (e.g. by consolidating redundant systems, deleting unnecessary code, or removing/updating out of date documentation).
- Dividing a software project into parallel work that can be performed by you and other software engineers and then reassembled successfully into a cohesive launch.
- Coaching and developing other software engineers' technical skills.
What We’re Looking For
- Solid experience building and designing highly scalable, fault tolerant and always available systems
- Good grasp in a broad range of data structures and algorithms
- Solid understanding of design patterns and architectural principles
- Strong technical leadership skills and follow-through, and self-starter for improvements
- Willingness to work across different technologies and programming languages
- Solid experience of coding with JavaScript (preferably React) and Java (Spring or Spring Boot). The team is particularly needing to plug front-end knowledge + experience.
- Good grasp on non-relational databases and messaging queues (Kafka)
- Familiarity with configuration management e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible
- Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS. Understating of containers (e.g. Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Experience with DevOps tools and process such as CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, BuildKite
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.
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
- Initial Screening call with Talent Acquisition
- Discussion-based interview on Software Delivery and Technical Task
- Discussion-based interview on Customer focus; Operational Excellence; Dealing with Ambiguity and System Design Exercise
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.