About the position
FanDuel is in search of a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Account vertical. You are considered a technical thought leader for the Engineering organization. You are part of a community of our most senior engineers, working with limited to no guidance and focusing on the organization’s most complex, ambiguous problems. You provide guidance to, and influence decisions made by other engineers within the vertical. You promote collaboration and communication across teams encouraging simplicity, consistency, and quality. You regularly interact with executives up to the c-suite, distilling relevant information from a complex technical strategy and incorporating relevant business strategy into technical strategies. As part of this role, you own the technical strategy for an engineering vertical, with responsibility for technical architecture and operational excellence. You take a leadership role on the vertical’s most important bodies of technical work. You balance a long-term view with short term demands, taking a pragmatic approach to system design. You embody 'simpler is always better', looking to reduce the complexity of the systems where you contribute. You do not accept the status quo or restrict yourself to organizational boundaries – you influence other verticals and the organization’s 'North Star' technical strategy, working with the Principal Community and other engineering leaders to drive decisions around programming languages, architecture, products, tools, approaches, and processes. You provide mentorship and guidance for other engineers, serving as a role model and supporting their career progression. 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.
Responsibilities
- Share responsibilities of a vertical’s architecture and take ownership of aligning the vertical’s engineers on a common technical strategy
- Take ownership of the vertical’s operational excellence, taking a hands-on approach to the resolution of the vertical’s most complex issues when needed
- Write simple code, taking complex paradigms and implementing them in a way that engineers at all levels can understand and contribute
- Insist on high standards for code quality whilst not letting perfection be enemy of the good
- Influence the strategy of the vertical’s teams, helping them understand how to make technical tradeoff decisions between short-term business needs and long-term technology needs
- Drive engineering engagement best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards for your vertical
- Help others leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring in your organization; contribute to the professional development of engineers within the vertical, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices
- Traverse team boundaries building strong relationships, influencing meaningful change, and effectively coordinating across engineering teams
- Support our software as part of an on-call rotation
Requirements
- Expert level experience building and designing highly scalable, fault tolerant and highly available systems
- Experience influencing technical decisions across engineering verticals
- Understand a broad range of complex data structures and complex algorithms
- Expert level understanding of design patterns and architectural principles
- Experienced in making pragmatic tradeoff decisions between short term needs and long-term needs
- Experienced in many modern programming languages, frameworks, and tools (especially Java)
- Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and best practices through influence
Benefits
- Array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck)
- Programs for fertility and family planning
- Mental health support
- Fitness benefits
- Generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave)
- Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance)
- 401k with up to a 5% match
- Commuter benefits
- Pet insurance
