Software Engineer in Midlothian

We're looking for a Software Engineer for one of our Acquisitions team, working with a multitude of micro-services achieving various goals for our marketing partners such as real-time merchandising or promotion enrollment. Your work will focus on highly efficient systems dealing with large volumes of real-time data, delivered to various systems to enable targeted marketing.

Responsibilities include:

• Make existing systems simpler (e.g. by consolidating redundant systems, deleting unnecessary code, or removing/updating out of date documentation).
• Solve straightforward 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.
• Propose pragmatic solutions to problems and be eager to learn from and educate others.
• Own parts of product and technology & strive to become a subject matter expert.
• Write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices.
• Test your code thoroughly.
• Help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and support ticket reviews.
• Clearly document your software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components you build.
• Troubleshoot and thoroughly resolve defects in the event of a problem.
• Provide excellent customer support.
• Estimate stories/tasks and deliver them on time.
• Participate in the on-call support rotation for your organisation.

What We’re Looking For:

• Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong backend engineering experience with Java, including building and maintaining production-grade services.
• Working knowledge of ReactJS.
• Understanding of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code concepts (we use Terraform).
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases, messaging queues, and concurrency patterns.
• Some experience with event streaming technologies.
• Knowledge of AWS and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Understanding of modern backend architectures, design patterns, and distributed systems.
• Experience with testing concepts and integrating testing best practices throughout the SDLC.
• Experience working in an Agile environment (we use Kanban).

Who you are:

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and adapting 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.

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.com.

The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you!