Senior Software Engineer

THE POSITION
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We’re looking for passionate technologists, strong communicators and those with a commitment to continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have the confidence to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems and be eager to learn from and educate others. As a software engineer, you will work in empowered, multidisciplinary teams, autonomously tackling complex challenges that provide the very best experiences and products for a growing community of millions of players.

You use technology to solve straightforward problems, seeking input and guidance from team members. You may create or have responsibility to improve or invent small tools or applications. You can take defined design and turn it into code and deliver it on schedule, applying appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices. You write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.

You are proficient in a broad range of data structures and algorithms, knowing when it is appropriate to use them and when it is not. You make appropriate implementation trade‑off decisions. You participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions. You seek to learn the business context and technologies behind your team’s software. You work effectively with other team members & identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions.

You invent, refine and develop your solutions to ensure they are meeting customer needs and team goals. You are a passionate advocate for your customer.

Our CPE Platform Vertical is responsible for each Fan Duel users’ wallet, payments, withdrawals, transactional history, tax and player activity journeys. If you deposit or withdraw money, check out your transactions or need to do your tax returns, our Engineering teams own this and more. You will be working to build out our Finance Ledger platform that supports the foundational products of Fan Duel like Fan Duel Sports book, Fan Duel Casino, Fan Duel Racing and Fan Duel Daily Fantasy Sports.

We use AWS, K8s, Terraform, Python, & Java amongst other languages & technologies.

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

• Responsible for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
• You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices. You test your code thoroughly.
• You classify, store, and handle data in accordance with Fan Duel policies.
• You track security risks and mitigate and/or elevate them in a timely manner.
• You understand the maintenance characteristics, run‑time properties, and dependencies of your team's software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.
• 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 are able to troubleshoot, research the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects.
• You provide excellent customer support.
• You participate in the interview process and help your team train other Software Engineers.
• You will keep yourself up to date with market standards, open‑source frameworks.
• Most importantly, be humble, pragmatic, self‑managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm.

• Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience preferred.
• Experience and passion for writing distributed, highly scalable and available backend systems & APIs using Java and/or Python or similar programming languages.
• Knowledge of release process best practices for APIs and services within production systems.
• Experience working with cloud‑based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS.
• Understanding Dev Ops concepts such as containers (e.g. Docker), orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Cloud Formation or Terraform).
• Knowledge of testing concepts, test tools,…