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 ROSTER
At FanDuel, we give fans a new and innovative way to interact with their favorite games, sports and teams. We’re dedicated to building a winning team and we pride ourselves on being able to make every moment mean more, especially when it comes to your career. So, what does “winning” look like at FanDuel? It’s recognition for your hard-earned results, a culture that brings out your best work—and a roster full of talented coworkers. Make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From creatives professionals to cutting edge technology innovators, FanDuel offers a wide range of career opportunities, best in class benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. At FanDuel, our principle of “We Are One Team” runs through all our offices across the globe, and you can expect to be a part of an exciting company with many opportunities to grow and be successful.

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

As a Senior Software Engineer within FanDuel’s Trading Solutions team, you will be an essential part of a cross functional agile team that directly impacts our business. You will work collaboratively with a team to implement creative, high-quality solutions, scope effort and timelines, and balance priorities of our stakeholders and engineering needs. This team will work closely to deliver exceptionally high-quality software, while taking pride and ownership in testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining that software. Our engineers own every part of the software delivery lifecycle.  

You will work directly with quantitative analysts at FanDuel to improve the major US sports platforms. You will be a domain expert on price modeling implementation and how that fits into the larger Risk and Trading landscape. You will go beyond the senior software developer role, and will be called upon to identify opportunities yourself in the quantitative space to innovate through technology.

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 have interest in innovation through software development and machine learning.

• 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.
• Knowledge of ML engineering through education or work experience..
• 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.

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right

From our many opportunities for professional development to our generous insurance and paid leave policies, we’re committed to making sure our employees get as much out of FanDuel as we ask them to give. Competitive compensation is just the beginning. As part of our team, you can expect:

• An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth
• Opportunities to build really cool products that fans love
• Career and professional development resources to help you refine your game plan for owning and driving your career and development
• Be well, save well and live well - with FanDuel Total Rewards your benefits are one highlight reel after another

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principal states, “We Are One Team!”  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 another 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.  We want our team to include diverse individuals because diversity of thought, diversity of perspectives, and diversity of experiences leads to better performance.  Having a diverse and inclusive workforce is a core value that we believe makes FanDuel stronger and more competitive as One Team!

The applicable salary range for this position is $126,000 - $175,000, 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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