FanDuel

Senior Software Engineer

FanDuel
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Jersey City, NJ, USASenior

Base Salary

$149k - $186k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve real-time quoting and decisioning components with attention to latency, throughput, and correctness.
  • Implement and maintain risk controls and guardrails, including exposure checks, limits, throttling, filters, and kill-switch patterns.
  • Implement decision logging that supports debugging, replay, and strategy improvement using quote and fill outcomes.
  • Partner with quantitative analysts and stakeholders to define and monitor trading and performance metrics.
  • Design, implement, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain software across the full delivery lifecycle.
  • Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, code reviews, team planning, and operational reviews.
  • Mentor junior engineers, train teammates, and help recruit and interview candidates.
  • Resolve complex problems, improve software maintainability, and drive operational excellence, including on-call support.

Requirements

  • Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.
  • At least 5 years of industry experience in engineering, machine learning, data science, finance engineering, statistics, or a related field.
  • At least 5 years of software-development experience.
  • Proficiency building services with a modern object-oriented programming language; C# experience is beneficial.
  • Understanding of performance, hardware, and lower-level memory management; C, C++, or Rust experience is beneficial.
  • Fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience with GitOps patterns, CI/CD pipeline tooling, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, containers, orchestration, unit testing, and software-quality practices.
  • Knowledge of AWS API Gateway, workflow orchestration, Lambda, and serverless applications.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform and Helm, is beneficial.
  • Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka is beneficial.
  • Experience with Jira and Confluence is beneficial.
  • Ability to translate requirements into designs, develop applications, document technical work clearly, and provide on-call support.
  • Trading-systems experience with event-driven or real-time systems, observability, safe rollout patterns, exposure and hedging concepts, backtesting, simulation, replay tooling, or strategy evaluation is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Health, vision, and dental insurance, including plans with some $0-per-paycheck options.
  • Fertility and family-planning programs, mental-health support, and fitness benefits.
  • Paid time off, sick leave, and 14 paid company holidays.
  • 401(k) matching of up to 5%.
  • Commuter benefits, pet insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and other employee benefits.
  • Potential annual bonus, long-term incentive, cash bonus, and stock-program participation based on eligibility and performance.
  • Hybrid work arrangement is indicated by the posting.

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About FanDuel

1,001-5,000 employees

FanDuel builds consumer sports wagering and gaming products in North America, including FanDuel Sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, FanDuel Casino, and horse-racing wagering, plus the FanDuel TV/TV+ media platforms. It earns revenue from consumer bets, fantasy entry fees, and gaming operations, and is available across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, it is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT).

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