Principal Engineer

Job Description:

Do you want to build the most accurate sports trading platforms in the world? Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you love creating winning moments for our customers?

If you’re excited by this challenge and want to work in a dynamic company, then we’d love to hear from you.

About Fanduel

FanDuel is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. We are the premier gaming destination in the United States with a growing presence here in Australia. The company is based in New York but has offices in California, New Jersey and Georgia in the US, Edinburgh in the UK, Porto in Portugal, and Melbourne (alongside our Sportsbet counterparts).

FanDuel is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

The Role

Our Principal Engineers are part of a community of our most senior engineers focusing on the organisations most complex, ambitious problems. You will take ownership for technical architecture and operational excellence and lead on some of the most important bodies of technical work in the organisation. You will be a core contributor to the organisations “north star” technical strategy, working with other engineering leaders to drive decisions around programming languages, architecture, products, tools, approaches, and processes. Free of line management responsibilities you will provide mentorship and guidance to other engineers, acting as a role model and supporting career progression.

Everyone on our team has a big part to play.

• Take ownership of Risk and trading platforms architecture, aligning the Engineers on a common technical strategy.
• Take ownership of operational excellence, taking a hands-on approach to the resolution of our most complex issues when needed.
• Design simple and efficient solutions for complex systems, taking multi-layered paradigms and implementing them in a way that Engineers at all levels can understand and contribute to. Insist on high standards for code quality while not letting perfection be the enemy of good.
• Influence the strategy of the teams, helping them understand how to make technical trade-off 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 the team.
• Help others leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring in your organisation. Contribute to the professional development of Engineers, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.
• You provide technical assessments for promotion to Lead Software engineer.
• When confronted with discordant views, you can find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path (build consensus).
• Work within the Fanduel Global Principal Engineering community to inform the next generation Technology Strategy and Spearhead Platform evolution.

About You

• Ability to think strategically to be future ready.
• Thought leader with the ability to guide and mentor a high performing team.
• Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and best practices through influence.
• Experienced in many modern programming languages e.g., .Net or Java or any Functional/OO programming language.
• Expert level experience building and designing highly scalable, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
• Experience influencing technical decisions across 60+ people across the technology team.
• Understand a broad range of complex data structures and complex algorithms.
• Expert level understanding of design patterns and architectural principles.

The Perks & Benefits

Along with a highly competitive salary and a performance-based annual bonus, you will get:

• 25 days annual leave
• Genuine flexible and remote working policy with a $850 work from home office allowance
• Tailored career development programs
• Discounted gym memberships, free breakfast, loads of event and conference tickets.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and a Circle In membership
• Industry leading Parental Leave support program with 26 weeks paid leave for Primary Carers and no wait time. We also have a progressive return to work benefit for your first 6 months back: come back for 3 days, get paid for 4; come back for 4 days, get paid for 5.

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we review candidates within 2 weeks of advertising.

Our Focus on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We’re an inclusive employer who welcomes you for who you are, as you are – so, if you require adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know in your application or contact us if you’d like to discuss this in more detail.

If you think you’d be a great fit but don’t necessarily meet everything in the job description, please still get in touch.

Ready for the challenge? Apply now!