Senior Software Engineer

Overview

In this role you will design and evolve high-performance, event-driven microservices that power FanDuel’s marketing ecosystem. You’ll work within a modern architecture to deliver real-time customer communications, personalized promotions, and targeted campaigns at scale. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable data-driven, personalized experiences for millions of users, while shaping the future of Martech with AI-enabled solutions. This position emphasizes ownership, pragmatic delivery, and mentoring others as you drive architectural direction and system simplification.

Pay / Benefits

• salary
• bonus
• pension
• private healthcare
• share save scheme
• flexible working policy

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize scalable microservices and event-driven data pipelines
• Lead projects with a strategic view of the vertical and architectural direction
• Write secure, maintainable, and well-documented code with strong testing practices
• Collaborate in design reviews, planning, and prioritization to improve software and processes
• Coach and mentor teammates, fostering technical skills and best practices
• Tackle root causes of complex problems and ensure reliable, on-time delivery
• Participate in on-call rotations and maintain operational health of systems
• Document software to aid future developers with intent and context

Key requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong backend experience with Java
• Experience with AWS and DevOps concepts (Terraform)
• Experience with event streaming technologies (SNS/SQS or Kafka)
• Good grasp of relational and non-relational databases, messaging queues, and concurrency handling
• Experience with high-volume systems and cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
• Familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Expertise in testing concepts, tools, and SDLC integration
• Strong ownership, urgency, and drive
• Experience in Agile environments and ability to adapt in fast-paced settings

• ownership
• urgency and drive
• adaptability
• Java
• AWS
• Terraform

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