ABOUT FANDUEL
FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America's #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry's unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.
In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company's affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.
FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).
THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with our DFS Web team, to build features relating to the homepage, entering lineups and contests. You'll be responsible for leading the UI strategy for FanDuel's website, ensuring security, flexibility, and a great customer experience to these areas. Your work focuses on complex, ambiguous problem areas in existing or new software initiatives.
- Take the long-term view and consider where each system is at in its life cycle and where appropriate, proactively fix architecture deficiencies.
- Make existing systems simpler (e.g. by consolidating redundant systems, deleting unnecessary code, or removing/updating out of date documentation).
- Dividing a software project into parallel work that can be performed by you and other software engineers and then reassembled successfully into a cohesive launch.
- Coaching and developing other software engineers' technical skills.
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.
THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play
- You take ownership of team architecture, providing a system-wide view and design guidance.
- You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices. You test your code thoroughly.
- Drive engineering engagement best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.
- Work to resolve the root cause of endemic problems including areas where your team limits the innovation of other teams (bottlenecks). This may require you to influence software decisions made by other teams.
- When confronted with discordant views, you can find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path.
- Actively help others leverage your expertise through coaching and mentoring.
- You understand proper data storage, classification, optimization techniques.
- You understand the maintenance characteristics, run-time properties, and dependencies of your team's software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.
- You establish and participate in the on-call support rotation for your organization.
- Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices.
- 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 can troubleshoot and thoroughly resolve defects.
THE STATS
What we're looking for in our next teammate
- Degree in Computer Science or related field with 3+ years of experience.
- Experience developing mainly frontend applications with React, React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript or similar (Angular/Vue).
- Experience ideally across mobile and web applications with regular releases.
- Good grasp on relational, non-relational databases, messaging queues and handling concurrency.
- Understanding of modern architectures, design patterns, and platform nuances.
- Knowledge of release process best practices for APIs and services within production systems.
- Strong experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS.
- Understating 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.
- Knowledge of sports and/or experience working within a heavily regulated industry is a plus.
- Familiarity working in an Agile environment.
- Passion for working within a fast-paced environment and can adapt to change.
PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right
We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits. We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits , pet insurance, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards. *Benefits differ across location, role, and level.
FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, "We are One Team!". As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.
The applicable salary range for this position is $138,000 - $181,650 USD, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.
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