Senior Data Engineer

ABOUT FANDUEL

Fan Duel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. Fan Duel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including:
America’s #1 Sports book, Fan Duel Sports book; its leading iGaming platform, Fan Duel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, Fan Duel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.

In addition, Fan Duel Group operates Fan Duel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and Fan Duel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. Fan Duel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

Fan Duel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, 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 POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

We are looking for aSenior Staff Data Engineerto play a foundational role in designing and building the next generation of our data solutions. This is a highly impactful individual contributor role that blends deep technical expertise with strategic influence. You will architect scalable data platforms and pipelines, develop reusable data products, and partner with cross-functional teams to solve complex, data-driven problems.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned data engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment, thinks in terms of systems and patterns, and leads by example through code, design, and technical thought leadership.

If you’re excited by this challenge and want to work within a dynamic company, then we’d love to hear from you.

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

Architect & Build Scalable Data Solutions

• Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable data pipelines and platform components using modern data stack tools and cloud infrastructure
• Define and enforce architectural standards, data modeling best practices, and data quality frameworks
• Drive the development of reusable, modular data products that serve multiple analytical and operational use cases

Technical Leadership

• Serve as a technical mentor and role model for other engineers, providing guidance on system design, performance optimization, and best practices
• Lead design reviews, contribute to critical design and architecture decisions, and set coding standards across the team
• Collaborate closely with data science, analytics, product, and business teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions

Innovation & Strategic Impact

• Identify gaps and opportunities in the existing data platform and propose scalable improvements that drive business value
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies and help the team evaluate and adopt the right tools for our evolving needs
• Advocate for customer-centric design in data solutions, ensuring we’re solving the right problems with the right abstractions

Operational Excellence

• Lead efforts in observability, monitoring, and reliability for our data pipelines and infrastructure
• Contribute to initiatives that improve developer velocity, reduce technical debt, and ensure platform sustainability
• Collaborate with the data governance team to uphold standards around data security, privacy, and compliance

THE STATS
What we're looking for in our next teammate

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering, with a focus on building data platforms and pipelines at scale
• Expertise in modern data technologies (e.g., Spark, Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Fivetran, Databricks) and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong command of SQL and at least one programming language…