Senior Software Engineer, Quantitative

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group ("FanDuel") is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, FanDuel consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media.
FanDuel has a presence across all 50 states with approximately 17 million customers and 28 retail locations. FanDuel is based in New York with offices in New Jersey , Georgia, California, Oregon, Canada and Scotland.
Its networks FanDuel TV and FanDuel+ are broadly distributed on linear cable television and through its relationships with leading direct-to-consumer over-the-top platforms.
FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, 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 GAME PLAN

Everyone on our team has a part to play
You are a significant and autonomous contributor. Your work is consistently of high quality. You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices. You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant. You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them and when it is not. Your solutions are pragmatic. You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand. You limit the use of short-term workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimize incidental complexity). You create flexible software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies. You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc).

We are looking for engineers to actively engage in technical discussions, assist in designing and implementing solutions, pair program with our more junior engineers, and deliver constant improvements to our systems. We want you to be excited about constantly learning and driving your professional development. You should have most, or all, of the following skills:

• Experience in both quantitative modeling practices and coding. You will be assisting in the creation of models and working with other engineers on your team to productionalize this software.
• You work in project ideas with stakeholders, and peers
• You own parts of product and technology & become subject matter experts
• You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices. You test your code thoroughly
• You help balance customer requirements with the team requirements
• You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews
• You classify, store, and handle data in accordance with FanDuel policies
• You track security risks and mitigate and/or escalate them in a timely manner
• You focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions
• You take on projects and make software enhancements that improve the team software and processes
• You work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it
• You are able to train new team-mates on how your team’s software is constructed, how it operates, how secure it is, and how it fits into the bigger picture
• You foster a constructive dialogue and seek resolutions in a professional way
• You help recruit and interview for your team
• You estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them in time
• You mentor and help to develop others
• On-call rotation where required. You provide excellent customer support
• You keep yourself up to date with market standards, open-source frameworks
• Most importantly, you are; humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm. Responsible for the state of the code you both inherit and produce
• Creative problem-solving ability
• A passion for learning and always getting better

THE STATS

What we’re looking for in our next teammate

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related discipline.
• 5 or more years of industry experience in an Engineering field, Machine Learning, Data Science, Finance Engineering, or Statistics.
• 5 or more years of software development experience.
• Proficient in building services with a modern OOP language (C# experience is beneficial).
• Understanding of performance, hardware, and lower level memory management (C, C++, or Rust experience is beneficial).
• A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Proficient in working with GitOps Patterns
• Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tooling (BuildKite and GitHub Actions knowledge is beneficial).
• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies.
• Knowledge of AWS with API gateway/workflow orchestration/lambda/serverless applications.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code is nice to have, notably Terraform and Helm.
• Experience interacting and designing relational databases.
• Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka is nice to have).
• Ability to document code, research, and designs clearly (Jira and Confluence experience nice to have).
• Proficiency in translating requirements into design and developing applications.
• Understanding of containers (e.g. Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and on call support.
• Experience with unit testing, testing tools, integrating testing and best-quality practices into an SDLC.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.

Please refer the Job description for details