Software Engineer
As a 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. You use technology to solve straightforward problems, seeking input and guidance from team members. You may create or have responsibility to improve or invent small tools or applications. You can take defined design and turn it into code and deliver it on schedule, applying appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices. You write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects. You are proficient in a broad range of data structures and algorithms, knowing when it is appropriate to use them and when it is not. You make appropriate implementation trade-off decisions. You participate in team design, scoping, and prioritization discussions. You seek to learn the business context and technologies behind your team's software. You work effectively other team members & identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions. You invent, refine, and develop your solutions to ensure they are meeting customer needs and team goals. You are a passionate advocate for your customer. Our Wallet Vertical is responsible for each FanDuel user’s wallet, payments, withdrawals, transaction history, tax information, and player activity journeys. You will be part of a Payments Engineering team within Wallet, responsible for building and maintaining user journeys around deposits and withdrawals. We use AWS, K8s, Terraform, Java, Python and React amongst other languages & technologies.
- Write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
- Participate in team design, scoping, and prioritization discussions.
- Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind your team's software.
- Work effectively other team members & identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions.
- Invent, refine, and develop your solutions to ensure they are meeting customer needs and team goals.
- Build and maintain user journeys around deposits and withdrawals within the Payments Engineering team.
- Solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
- Test your code thoroughly.
- Actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and support ticket reviews.
- Hold your peers accountable for our established Agile practices.
- Estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them on time.
- Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience (required).
- Experience and passion for writing distributed, highly scalable and available backend systems & APIs using Java or similar programming languages (required).
- Enough experience with web applications to support and debug JavaScript and React codebase (required).
- A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms (required).
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive (required).
- Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and software best practices (required).
- Experience with testing concepts, test tools, integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC, and overall quality engineering practices (required).
- Understanding DevOps concepts such as containers (e.g. Docker), orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. CloudFormation or Terraform) (required).
- Desire to learn and develop your skills through a growth mindset (required).
- Passion for working within a fast-paced environment and can adapt to change (required).
- 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.
- 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.
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Disability insurance.
- 14 paid company holidays.
- Paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.
FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the North America, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media, including FanDuel, Stardust Casino and TVG. 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).