FanDuel - Senior Software Engineer – Core Marketing Platforms

• Lead projects with a holistic view of the strategic direction of the vertical. • Defining the architecture of the future, enabling our systems to utilize modern technologies to their fullest whilst achieving our goals, while ensuring that it is balanced with enough time to focus on operationally improving our existing systems. • Solve complex problems, seeking input and guidance from team members • Take defined design and turn it into code and deliver it on schedule, applying appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices. • Write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects • Participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions • Work effectively with other team members & identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions. • Everyone on our team has a part to play • You own parts of product and technology & strive to become a subject matter expert • You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices. You test your code thoroughly, balancing customer and team requirements. • You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning and support ticket reviews • You take on projects and make software enhancements that improve team software and processes • You work to resolve the root cause of complicated problems, leaving software better than you found it • Actively help others leverage your expertise through coaching and mentoring. • You understand proper data storage, classification, optimization techniques. • You estimate stories/tasks and deliver them on time. • You keep yourself up to date with market standards, open-source frameworks, and other industry tools. • You understand the maintenance characteristics, run-time properties, and dependencies of your team's software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies. • You participate in the on-call support rotation for your organization. • Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices. • You clearly document your software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components you build. • In the event of a problem, you can troubleshoot and thoroughly resolve defects. • Most importantly, you are humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied, and always challenge the norm. Responsible for the state of the code you both inherit and produce. • Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience. • Experience with AWS as well as understanding DevOps concepts such as IaC (we use Terraform) • Experience with event streaming technologies such as SNS/SQS or Kafka. • Good grasp on relational, non-relational databases, messaging queues and handling concurrency. • Experience working with high volume systems. • Understanding of modern architectures, design patterns, and platform nuances. • Strong experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS. • Understating of containers (e.g., Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes). • Expert experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC. • Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. • Familiarity working in an Agile environment. • Passion for working within a fast-paced environment and can adapt to change. • 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.