Senior Software Engineer in Midlothian

Our roster has an opening with your name on it. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join one of our Core Marketing Platforms teams, where you'll build and optimize high-performance microservices that power FanDuel's marketing ecosystem. You'll work on systems enabling critical capabilities such as real-time customer communications, personalized promotions, and targeted campaign delivery.

Your work will focus on designing highly scalable, event-driven systems that process large volumes of real-time data, delivering intelligent insights to marketing partners. You'll help enable data-driven, personalized experiences for millions of customers across our platform. You'll work within a modern microservices and event-driven architecture, building Martech solutions enhanced by AI to drive customer engagement and retention.

Responsibilities include:

• Taking the long-term view and considering what volumes our systems can handle today, vs 3 years from now.
• Making existing systems simpler (e.g. by consolidating redundant systems, deleting unnecessary code, or removing/updating out of date documentation).
• Coaching and developing other software engineers' technical skills.
• Leading 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.
• Solving complex problems, seeking input and guidance from team members.
• Writing secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
• Participating in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions.
• Working effectively with other team members & identifying any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions.

What we’re looking for in our next teammate:

• Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong backend experience with Java.
• 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.
• Understanding 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.
• 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.

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.