Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Location

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Staff Software Engineer – Backend Engineering

• Work with core marketing platforms teams on microservices for marketing partners, delivering real‑time data for targeted marketing.
• Collaborate with engineers, product, quality, design and other functions to translate customer problems into code, applying current software engineering best practices.
• Write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
• Advise on trade‑off decisions and participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions.
• Act as a technical lead, owning team tech debt & improvement roadmaps, and guiding code quality, road map, and design reviews.
• Engage in code reviews, design discussions, ticket/metric/COE reviews, and drive best practices in operational excellence, security, quality.
• Resolve root causes of bottlenecks and influence software decisions across teams.
• Participate in on‑call rotation for customer support when required.
• Self‑manage craft, delegate, empower teammates, and partner with engineering manager to improve delivery.
• Foster constructive dialogue and build consensus across teams.
• Stay up‑to‑date with market standards and open‑source frameworks.

• Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of backend software development, designing and maintaining services.
• Strong experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple teams, setting technical strategy and delivering organizational impact.
• High technical judgement, innovation and ability to tackle open‑ended problems with difficult prioritization.
• Experience working with product teams to identify and prioritize work such as tech debt, tech improvements and developer quality improvements.
• Proficiency with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Datadog) and adherence to SLAs for backend performance.
• Experience with cloud‑based infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (preferably Buildkite) and familiarity with Git, Git Hub, Jira, Confluence.
• Skill in delegating, mentoring, and empowering individuals.
• Passion for quality and expertise in unit testing, testing tools or integration testing.
• Strong sense of ownership and track record of driving technical delivery.
• Experience with server‑side Java.
• Knowledge of AWS services such as SNS/SQS, AWS Serverless (Step Functions, Lambdas).
• Good grasp of relational, non‑relational databases, messaging queues and concurrency.
• Passion for the fast‑paced, innovative sports betting industry.

We offer comprehensive benefits including health plans (some as low as $0 per paycheck), fertility and family planning programs, mental health support, fitness benefits, generous paid time off, annual bonus and long‑term incentive opportunities, 401(k) with up to 5% match, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and more.

USD 159,000 – 208,950 per year, dependent on experience, location, and market demand.

Fan Duel is an equal‑opportunity employer and we believe in a one‑team culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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