Senior Software Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer at FanDuel, you will build and evolve core account-related services across FanDuel products with a focus on scalable backend systems. You’ll collaborate in empowered, cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software for millions of players. You’ll champion pragmatic solutions, design thoughtful architectures, and mentor others in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment. This role offers impact through ownership of critical systems and the chance to shape customer onboarding and account management at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive compensation
• insurance and paid leave
• career and professional development resources
• FanDuel Total Rewards
• focus on work-life balance
• equal opportunity employer

Responsibilities

• Owner of product areas within the account domain of FanDuel products
• Design, implement, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs
• Contribute to architecture decisions and code reviews to improve software quality
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in planning, on-call support, and incident response
• Balance customer requirements with team constraints and drive operational excellence
• Mentor and educate other engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement
• Estimate work, deliver on commitments, and keep up to date with industry trends and open-source frameworks

Key requirements

• Distributed, highly scalable backend systems and APIs
• Programming in Java or Python (or similar)
• Cloud experience, preferably AWS
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and databases (relational and non-relational)
• DevOps concepts including containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Strong ownership, urgency, and drive; growth mindset and adaptability
• Testing concepts and integration of testing in SDLC
• Experience with release processes for APIs/services
• On-call experience and ability to handle production issues

• strong communicator
• pragmatic problem-solver
• growth mindset
• Java
• Python
• AWS

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