Software Engineer - Core Marketing Platforms

THE POSITION 

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We're looking for a Software Engineer to join one of our Core Marketing Platforms teams, where you'll build and optimize high-performance microservices that power FanDuel'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 within a modern microservices and event-driven architecture, building Martech solutions enhanced by AI to drive customer engagement and retention. 

• Make existing systems simpler (e.g. by consolidating redundant systems, deleting unnecessary code, or removing/updating out of date documentation).  

• Solve well-defined problems independently, knowing when to seek input or guidance from the wider team 

• Translate technical designs into clean, well—tested code using appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices, delivered on schedule. 

• Write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects 

• Contribute to team discussion on technical design, scoping and prioritisation. 

• Collaborate effectively across the team, surfacing risks and opportunities that arise from technical decisions. 

• Propose pragmatic solutions and share knowledge and learnings with the wider team. 

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 help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and support ticket reviews.  

• 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 identify a swift resolution. 

• You provide excellent customer support. 

• You estimate stories/tasks and deliver them on time. 

• Most importantly, you are humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm. Responsible for the state of the code you both inherit and produce  

• You participate in the on-call support rotation for your organization. 

What We’re Looking For

What we’re looking for in our next teammate   

• Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience. 2+ years of relevant work experience. 

• Strong backend experience with Java 

• Understanding of AWS as well as DevOps concepts such as IaC (we use Terraform) 

• Some experience with event streaming technologies such as SNS/SQS or Kafka. 

• Good grasp on relational, non-relational databases, messaging queues and handling concurrency. 

• Understanding of modern architectures, design patterns, and platform nuances 

• Appreciation of orchestration and containerisation, ideally Kubernetes  
  (K8s) 

• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies. 

• Experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC