Software Engineer - Core Marketing Platforms
FanDuel is a premier US-based gaming destination, offering daily fantasy sports, sports betting, and online casino games. Founded in 2009 to innovate the fantasy sports industry, it has become a leading mobile sports betting operator, allowing users to bet on sports, play online games, and build fantasy teams across a wide array of professional sports leagues.
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About FanDuel
FanDuel is the premier gaming destination and #1 Sportsbook in the United States. What started as a backyard brainstorm in Texas in 2009 has grown into a major force in the gaming industry. The company revolutionized fantasy sports by simplifying the season-long game into daily contests, allowing fans to compete and win daily. Today, with over 12 million registered users, FanDuel offers a wide range of products including sports betting on leagues like the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL; an online casino with blackjack, slots, and live dealer games; daily fantasy sports for various sports like football, baseball, and basketball; and horse racing betting for major events. Additionally, FanDuel provides content through FanDuel TV and insights via FanDuel Research, making every moment of the game more engaging for its users.
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About the Role
You will build and optimize high-performance microservices for real-time customer communications, personalized promotions, and targeted campaigns. You will design scalable event-driven systems, write secure and maintainable Java code, contribute to technical decisions, troubleshoot issues, document software, and participate in on-call support.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or a related software engineering field or equivalent practical experience
- 2+ years of relevant work experience
- Strong backend experience with Java
- AWS
- DevOps
- Infrastructure as code
- Terraform
- SNS/SQS or Kafka
- Relational databases
- Non-relational databases
- Messaging queues
- Concurrency
- Modern architectures
- Design patterns
- Kubernetes
- Cloud infrastructure
- Testing concepts and tools
- Agile
Responsibilities
- Simplify existing systems
- Solve well-defined problems independently
- Translate technical designs into clean, well-tested code
- Write secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code
- Contribute to technical design, scoping, and prioritization discussions
- Collaborate across the team and surface technical risks and opportunities
- Propose pragmatic solutions and share knowledge
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, team planning, and support ticket reviews
- Document software
- Troubleshoot problems and identify swift resolutions
- Provide customer support
- Estimate stories and tasks
- Participate in the on-call support rotation
Benefits
- Pension
- Private healthcare
- Share save scheme
- Flexible working
- Holiday policy