Software Engineer - Sportsbook

THE POSITION

We’re looking for passionate & experienced technologists, strong communicators, and those with a commitment to continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have the confidence to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems and be eager to learn from and educate others as a Software Engineer working for our Sports book domain, you are able to take defined designs and turn them into secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.

You will be working with the Fan Duel Sports book application, providing our customers with a best-in-class experience as a backend proficient Software Engineer. You’ll play a pivotal part in making our platform highly usable and will write clear, scalable, and high-quality code. You will work continuously to improve architecture and processes to improve quality and efficiency. 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.

Everyone on our team has a part to play. 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 Engineer 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).

• You own parts of product and technology & demonstrate subject matter expertise.
• You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices and 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 delivery excellence reviews.
• 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 estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them in time.
• You keep yourself up to date with market standards and open-source frameworks.
• Most importantly, you are: humble, pragmatic, self‑managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm. You demonstrate responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.

• Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 2 or more years of Software Development experience in creating and maintaining backend services and APIs with proficiency in Type Script and Node.js.
• A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms with focus on backend optimization.
• Experience implementing Backend for Frontend (BFF) architectural patterns to optimize data delivery for frontend applications.
• Knowledge of patterns for data transformation and processing pipelines.
• Experience working with cloud‑based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, RDS).
• Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tooling, preferably Jenkins or Buildkite.
• Familiarity with Git, Git Lab, JIRA, Confluence, and OpenAPI for backend service documentation.
• Proficiency in translating business requirements into scalable backend service designs and RESTful/Graph
  
  QL APIs.
• Experienced with monitoring and alerting tools like Datadog or Sentry.
• Experience with unit testing, testing tools, integrating testing and best-quality practices into an SDLC.
• Experience working with headless CMS and…