[Hiring] Software Engineer @FanDuel

Role Description

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our CPE Platform vertical, working within Core Products and Experiences. In this role, you’ll contribute to a multidisciplinary team building reliable, engaging products for millions of players. You’ll bring some hands-on engineering experience, a practical approach to solving problems, and a willingness to learn from and support others.

• Help deliver well-structured software.
• Participate in technical discussions and contribute to documentation.
• Support continuous improvement across the team.
• Work as part of our Session Management team, helping build and improve backend services that support reliable, scalable customer sessions.
• Learn how our systems work and contribute to well-scoped features, fixes, and improvements with support from more experienced engineers.
• Write clear, maintainable backend code using Java or similar languages, following team standards and best practices.
• Help build and improve APIs, services, and database-backed functionality that can handle high volumes of traffic.
• Test changes carefully and look for simple ways to make our services more reliable, observable, and easier to support.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, planning sessions, and team ceremonies.
• Investigate bugs and support issues, working with the team to understand root causes and make practical improvements.
• Learn about scaling systems, databases, caching, and cloud infrastructure through hands-on work with the team.
• Keep documentation up to date so others can understand how our services work and how to support them.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product partners, and stakeholders to deliver changes that improve the reliability and performance of session management.
• Bring curiosity, humility, and a willingness to learn while growing your engineering judgment and technical confidence over time.

Qualifications

• Some experience building backend software through work, internships, placements, bootcamps, university projects, or personal projects.
• An understanding of Java or a similar object-oriented programming language, and an interest in developing backend services and APIs.
• Familiarity with databases and SQL, with an interest in learning more about data modeling, performance, and scaling.
• Awareness of common data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• An interest in distributed systems, reliability, monitoring, and how high-traffic backend systems operate in production.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, containers, or CI/CD is helpful, but not required.
• An understanding of testing basics and a willingness to write tests as part of everyday development.
• Comfortable working in a team environment, asking questions, receiving feedback, and learning from others.
• A practical approach to problem solving and a desire to leave code and documentation clearer than you found it.
• Enthusiasm for working on backend systems that support customer-facing products at scale.

Requirements

• Interesting work in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry.
• A sense of achievement from owning software and receiving positive feedback.
• Clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level.
• A supportive manager and loads of learning opportunities.
• 10% of your time dedicated to learning.
• A trusting work environment where productivity is valued.
• Great financial package including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy.

Benefits

• Generous paid leave policy to enjoy your downtime.
• Remote-first working environment.