Senior Software Engineer - Core Marketing Platforms

THE POSITION Our roster has an opening with your name on it We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join one of our Core Marketing Platforms teams, where you'll build and optimize high-performance microservices that power Fan Duel's marketing ecosystem. You'll work on systems enabling critical capabilities such as real-time customer communications, personalized promotions, and targeted campaign delivery.

Your work will focus on designing highly scalable, event-driven systems that process large volumes of real-time data, delivering intelligent insights to marketing partners. You'll help enable data-driven, personalized experiences for millions of customers across our platform.

You'll work with in a modern microservices and event-driven architecture, building Martech solutions enhanced by AI to drive customer engagement and retention. Take the long-term view and consider what volumes our systems can handle today, vs 3 years from now.  Make existing systems simpler (e.g. by consolidating redundant systems, deleting unnecessary code, or removing/updating out of date documentation).  Coaching and developing other software engineers' technical skills.

Lead projects with a holistic view of the strategic direction of the vertical. Defining the architecture of the future, enabling our systems to utilize modern technologies to their fullest whilst achieving our goals, while ensuring that it is balanced with enough time to focus on operationally improving our existing systems. Solve complex problems, seeking input and guidance from team members Take defined design and turn it into code and deliver it on schedule, applying appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices.

Write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects Participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions Work effectively with other team members & identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions. THE GAME PLAN Everyone on our team has a part to play You own parts of product and technology & strive to become a subject matter expert You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices.

You test your code thoroughly, balancing customer and team requirements. You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning and support ticket reviews You take on projects and make software enhancements that improve team software and processes You work to resolve the root cause of complicated problems, leaving software better than you found it Actively help others leverage your expertise through coaching and mentoring.

You understand proper data storage, classification, optimization techniques. You estimate stories/tasks and deliver them on time. You keep yourself up to date with market standards, open-source frameworks, and other industry tools. You understand the maintenance characteristics, run-time properties, and dependencies of your team's software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies. You participate in the on-call support rotation for your organization.

Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices. You clearly document your software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components you build. In the event of a problem, you can troubleshoot and thoroughly resolve defects. Most importantly, you are humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied, and always challenge the norm.

Responsible for the state of the code you both inherit and produce. What we’re looking for in our next teammate  Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.  Strong backend experience with Java

Experience with AWS as well as understanding Dev Ops concepts such as IaC (we use Terraform)

Experience with event streaming technologies such as SNS/SQS or Kafka. Good grasp on relational, non-relational databases, messaging queues and handling concurrency. Experience…