The PositionYou are a technical voice the Engineering organization trusts and follows. You are part of a community of FanDuel's most senior Engineers, focused on the organization's most complex and ambiguous problems: shaping our future architecture, setting technical expectations and guidance, and setting and maintaining the highest engineering standards. You own the technical strategy for the CPE engineering domain, with ownership & responsibility for technical architecture (current and target state), operational excellence and engineering standards. CPE builds the systems fans touch first and trust most: payments and money movement, account and onboarding, geolocation, responsible gaming and player integrity, and the promotions, rewards and loyalty, campaign orchestration, personalization, and marketing messaging that shape every fan's day-to-day experience. You take a leadership role on the domain's most important work, balancing a long view against short-term demands and taking a pragmatic approach to architectural design. You will spend some of your time working with the Principal Community and other senior Engineers to set the standard for how AI is used across the SDLC, including where we choose not to use it, and to shape our engineering practices, back-end and front-end architecture, FanDuel's product suite, our tools, approaches and processes. You mentor and support our Senior Staff Engineers, themselves highly experienced, and serve as a role model to our engineering community and a visible part of how the domain is run. What We're Looking ForExpert-level experience building and designing scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available systems, including systems under extreme peak load that spikes around live eventsExperience influencing technical direction across 200+ person Engineering organizationsExpert-level understanding of engineering design patterns and architectural approaches. Deep, current, hands-on command of AI-assisted software development: agentic coding and spec-driven development workflows, the context and tooling that make them work, and review, testing and verification practices that hold up as code volume risesA proven track record taking an engineering organization past experimentation to a measured change in how software is built: setting the standards for where AI is and is not used, evidence of the effect on throughput, quality and security, and the judgment to tell real uplift from theatre. Able to do this in a regulated environment, where auditability and data boundaries constrain what AI is allowed to touchExperienced in making pragmatic tradeoffs between short-term needs and long-term needsAble to build trust and shared understanding with teams and engineers who do not report to youDeep experience in modern back-end languages, functional and object-oriented, including JavaDemonstrated ability to raise operational excellence and best practice through influence and collaborationWhat You'll DoTake ownership of CPE's domain architecture, aligning the domain's Senior Staff Engineers on a target technical architecture and strategyTake ownership of the domain's operational excellence, taking a hands-on approach to the resolution of its most complex issues when needed. You set the pattern through prototypes and reference implementations rather than owning feature delivery. Insist on high standards for code quality while not letting perfection be the enemy of the goodInfluence the delivery of the domain's teams and their Staff and Senior Staff Engineers, helping them understand how to make technical tradeoff decisions between short-term business needs and long-term technology needsDrive engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality) and set standards for the CPE domainHelp others leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring Senior Staff Engineers in your organizationSupport our software as part of the domain's senior escalation tier, rather than the primary on-call rotationWhat You Can ExpectInteresting 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 horizonsA 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 createdPersonal 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 learningBelonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together and have lots of fun doing itTrust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and workGreat financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefitsABOUT FANDUELFanDuel 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: its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry's unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. 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).Diversity, Equity and InclusionFanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please email Benefits@fanduel.
REMOTE PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER in Edinburgh employer: FanDuel
At FanDuel, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment where innovation thrives and every team member plays a crucial role in delivering outstanding customer experiences. Our culture fosters collaboration, trust, and personal development, with clear career pathways and ample learning opportunities, all while enjoying a competitive financial package that includes flexible working arrangements. Located in the vibrant city of New York, our teams are empowered to take ownership of their projects, ensuring a sense of achievement as they contribute to the forefront of mobile gaming.
