Software Engineer New Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product. In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network, and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states and Puerto Rico, with approximately 17 million customers and 25 retail locations.

THE POSITION

Our roster has an opening with your name on it. We’re looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our Account vertical, working within Core Products and Experiences, which provides Acquisition, Onboarding, Management, and Protection customer journeys. Our remit is to enable customers to easily sign up and manage all details of their user accounts across FanDuel products. We’re looking for passionate technologists, strong communicators, and those with a commitment to continuous improvement.

THE GAME PLAN

• Your work is consistently of high quality.
• You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
• You work with your team to invent, design, and build software that is stable and performant.
• You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them and when it is not.
• Your solutions are pragmatic.
• You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an engineer unfamiliar with the system can understand.
• You limit the use of short-term workarounds.
• You create flexible software without over-engineering.
• You make appropriate trade-offs, reuse where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
• You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc.).
• You welcome feedback and strive to continuously improve your skills.
• You own parts of product and technology and strive to become a subject-matter expert.
• You write simple and extensible code following standards and best practices.
• You test your code thoroughly.
• You help balance customer requirements with the team’s 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 the team’s software and processes.
• You work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it.
• You estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them on time.
• You keep yourself up to date with industry tools, utilities, and open-source frameworks.
• You take responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.

THE STATS

What we’re looking for in our next teammate: Degree in Computer Science or a related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience preferred. 2+ years of experience preferred. Experience writing distributed, highly scalable, and available backend systems.