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Staff Software Engineer

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fanduel logoFanduel · Atlanta, GA
Full-timeOn-site3w ago
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THE POSITION Our roster has an opening with your name on it We're looking for passionate technologists, strong communicators, and those with a commitment to continuous improvement who owns the outcome as a Staff Software Engineer. The role will join one of our Core Marketing Platforms teams, working with a multitude of microservices achieving various goals for our marketing partners such as real-time communications or promotions. Your work will focus on highly efficient systems dealing with large volumes of real time data, delivered to various systems to enable targeted marketing. As a Staff Software Engineer proficient in Backend engineering, you will work with empowered, multidisciplinary teams, autonomously tackling complex challenges that provide the very best experiences and products for a growing community of millions of players. In this role you will work alongside teams of engineers setting technical strategy and solving technical problems. You will work collaboratively with multiple functions including Software Engineering, Quality, Design and Product and take defined customer problems, and turn solutions into code by applying appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices. You will write secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects. You will advise on implementation of trade-off decisions and participate in team design, scoping, and prioritization discussions. Most importantly, you are a passionate advocate for our customers. 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 You work on project ideas and strategy with customers, stakeholders, and peers, balancing customer requirements with the team requirements, and strive to become a subject matter expert. You help lead your team when it comes to code quality and roadmap, by owning your team's tech debt & tech improvement roadmaps. You help your team evolve by actively participating, and leading, in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews. Write simple, exemplary code that motivates your team to write quality code & to follow best standards Drive engineering engagement best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) that have multi-project, multi-year impact. Self-manage your craft by deliberately owning the outcome of key initiatives, delegating and empowering teammates, and pairing with your engineering manager to improve delivery. Work to resolve the root cause of problems, including areas where your team may experience bottlenecks. This may require you to influence software decisions made by other teams. When confronted with discordant views, you can find the best way forward and build consensus. You foster constructive dialogue and seek resolutions in a professional way. You keep yourself up to date with market standards and open-source frameworks. You provide excellent customer support on an on-call rotation where required. Most importantly, you are humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied, and always challenge the norm. THE STATS What we're looking for in our next teammate Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience. 7+ years in Backend software development in creating and maintaining services. Strong experience in Microservices architecture. Strong experience in providing technical leadership across multiple teams, resulting in both setting technical strategy and delivering organizational impact. Skilled in exhibiting a very high standard of technical judgement, innovation and execution to tackle open-ended problems that require difficult prioritization, defining both what and how things are to be done. Experienced with working with Product teams to identify and prioritize work for things like tech debt, tech improvements or developer quality of life improvements. Proficient with monitoring and alerting tools like Datadog, including setting and adhering to SLAs for backend performance. Capable working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS Skilled working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tooling (preferably Buildkite), and familiarity with Git, GitHub, Jira, Confluence. Proficient in responsibly delegating, mentoring, and empowering individuals. Passion for quality and understanding of quality best practices within an SDLC, with experience in unit testing, testing tools, or integrating testing. Strong sense of ownership, with a track record of owning the outcome of technical delivery. Strong experience in server-side Java. Knowledge of AWS cloud technologies, such as SNS/SQS, AWS Serverless (Step Functions, Lambdas). Good grasp on relational, non-relational databases,


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