Senior Software Engineer - Quantitative

FanDuel•Jersey City, NJ

2h•$149,000 - $195,300•Hybrid

About The Position

We're growing our Pricing Innovation Engineering team that works on some of the coolest software in the industry - the systems that price betting markets for the major US sports! The team you will join works with quantitative analysts to model pricing for these markets, while proactively identifying opportunities for technical innovation within the Risk and Trading organization. Our stakeholders are the people who establish the odds and prices for the #1 sports book in America! As a Senior Software Engineer within FanDuel’s Trading Solutions team, you will be an essential part of a cross functional agile team that directly impacts our business. You will work collaboratively with a team to implement creative, high-quality solutions, scope effort and timelines, and balance priorities of our stakeholders and engineering needs. This team will work closely to deliver exceptionally high-quality software, while taking pride and ownership in testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining that software. Our engineers own every part of the software delivery lifecycle. You will work directly with quantitative analysts at FanDuel to improve the major US sports platforms. You will be a domain expert on price modeling implementation and how that fits into the larger Risk and Trading landscape. You will go beyond the software developer role and will be called upon to identify opportunities yourself in the quantitative space to innovate through technology. 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.

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related discipline.
5 or more years of industry experience in an Engineering field, Machine Learning, Data Science, Finance Engineering, or Statistics.
5 or more years of software development experience.
Proficient in building services with a modern OOP language (C# experience is beneficial).
Understanding of performance, hardware, and lower level memory management (C, C++, or Rust experience is beneficial).
A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms.
Proficient in working with GitOps Patterns
Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tooling (BuildKite and GitHub Actions knowledge is beneficial).
Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies.
Knowledge of AWS with API gateway/workflow orchestration/lambda/serverless applications.
Experience interacting and designing relational databases.
Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka is nice to have).
Ability to document code, research, and designs clearly (Jira and Confluence experience nice to have).
Proficiency in translating requirements into design and developing applications.
Understanding of containers (e.g. Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and on call support.
Experience with unit testing, testing tools, integrating testing and best-quality practices into an SDLC.
Experience working in an Agile environment.
Creative problem-solving ability
A passion for learning and always getting better
Humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm.

Nice To Haves

C# experience is beneficial
C, C++, or Rust experience is beneficial
BuildKite and GitHub Actions knowledge is beneficial
Knowledge of infrastructure as code is nice to have, notably Terraform and Helm.
Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka is nice to have).
Jira and Confluence experience nice to have

Responsibilities

You are a significant and autonomous contributor.
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 SDE 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).
Actively engage in technical discussions, assist in designing and implementing solutions, pair program with our more junior engineers, and deliver constant improvements to our systems.
Work in project ideas with stakeholders, and peers
Own parts of product and technology & become subject matter experts
Write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices.
Test your code thoroughly
Help balance customer requirements with the team requirements
Help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews
Classify, store, and handle data in accordance with FanDuel policies
Track security risks and mitigate and/or escalate them in a timely manner
Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions
Take on projects and make software enhancements that improve the team software and processes
Work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it
Train new team-mates on how your team's software is constructed, how it operates, how secure it is, and how it fits into the bigger picture
Foster a constructive dialogue and seek resolutions in a professional way
Help recruit and interview for your team
Estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them in time
Mentor and help to develop others
On-call rotation where required. You provide excellent customer support
Keep yourself up to date with market standards, open-source frameworks
Responsible for the state of the code you both inherit and produce

Benefits

We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics.
We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
We offer 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, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards.
Benefits differ across location, role, and level.
medical, vision, and dental insurance
life insurance
disability insurance
a 401(k) matching program
paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays.
FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.