FanDuel · 21 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer – Quantitative
Jersey City, NJ
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$149K/yr - $195K/yr
5+ years expFanDuel is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Pricing Innovation Engineering team. This role involves collaborating with quantitative analysts to model pricing for betting markets and developing high-quality software solutions.
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Responsibilities
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
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 software developer role and will be called upon to identify opportunities yourself in the quantitative space to innovate through technology
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
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
Qualification
Required
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
Understanding of performance, hardware, and lower level memory management
A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms
Proficient in working with GitOps Patterns
Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tooling
Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies
Knowledge of AWS with API gateway/workflow orchestration/lambda/serverless applications
Experience interacting and designing relational databases
Experience with streaming technologies
Ability to document code, research, and designs clearly
Proficiency in translating requirements into design and developing applications
Understanding of containers and orchestration
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
Preferred
C# experience is beneficial
C, C++, or Rust experience is beneficial
BuildKite and GitHub Actions knowledge is beneficial
Knowledge of infrastructure as code is nice to have, notably Terraform and Helm
Kafka is nice to have
Jira and Confluence experience nice to have
Benefits
Medical, vision, and dental insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
A 401(k) matching program
Paid personal time off
14 paid company holidays
Paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws
Fertility and family planning programs
Mental health support
Fitness benefits
Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance)
Commuter benefits
Pet insurance
Company
FanDuel
FanDuel is a gaming company that offers sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, horse racing, and online casino games.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$416.2MKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsShamrock Capital AdvisorsComcast Ventures
2020-12-03Acquired
2017-09-12Series E
2016-09-14Convertible Note· $55M
Leadership Team
Josh Ives
SVP Customer Experience Operations
Caralyn Cooley
Chief People Officer
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