Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Core Marketing Platforms) at Fanduel

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Edinburgh/Hybrid

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans every day. That’s no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging, we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.

The Position

In this role, you will be working on FanDuel's Core Marketing Platforms Team working with existing Java based services, as well as designing and creating new ones. You'll work closely with our Product, and Marketing colleagues to enable us to create the right solution to solve their problems. You'll work within a small team that works with both third-parties, and in-house software.

You'll participate in discussions around build vs buy, enabling our Marketing partners to make the right choice for the business. Our tech stack includes Java, Docker, K8s and AWS, amongst others and the scale and complexity of our engineering environments provides interesting problems to solve at every turn.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for technical leaders on the team who can take ownership of the architecture and code base. You will, ideally, have experience of influencing the technical direction of a team in a scaling or established technology organisation.

Skilled in Java and ideally SpringBoot.
Experience working with AWS cloud based infrastructure and technologies.
Terraform experience is preferred but we can also consider knowledge of Cloudformation
Good grasp on relational, non relational databases, messaging queues and concurrency.
Familiarity working in an Agile environment.
Understanding of orchestration and containerisation, ideally Kubernetes (K8s) but can consider those with knowledge of EKS.

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. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons
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.

The Interview Process

Recruiter Screen (30 Minutes)
Hiring Manager Interview (60 Minutes)
Technical Interview: Systems Design (60 Minutes)
Technical Interview: Paired Programming Exercise (60 Minutes)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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.

Location

Our Scottish tech hub is based in central Edinburgh and is fitted with fabulous amenities including a Gym, showers, bike parking, gaming pods, multiple breakout areas, meeting rooms, a roof terrace and much more. We operate a hybrid model for the majority of our roles, where we normally spend a day or two in the office per week.

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!

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