Senior Software Engineer – Market Making

🕒 March 9

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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FanDuel

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1001 - 5000 employees

💰 Series E on 2017-09

FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the North America, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media, including FanDuel, Stardust Casino and TVG.

📋 Description

• Work collaboratively with a team to implement creative, high-quality solutions, scope effort and timelines, and balance priorities of our stakeholders and engineering needs. • Improve market making capabilities with quantitative analysts at FanDuel. • Be a domain expert on strategy implementation (quoting/decision logic) and how that fits into the larger Risk and Trading landscape. • Ensure robust guardrails (limits, throttles, kill switch) and high-fidelity decision logging. • Identify opportunities in the quantitative space to innovate through technology. • Actively engage in technical discussions, assist in designing and implementing solutions, pair program with junior engineers, and deliver constant improvements to systems. • Create flexible software without over-engineering and make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and be judicious about introducing dependencies. • Keep resource usage efficient (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc).

🎯 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. • Knowledge of infrastructure as code is nice to have, notably Terraform and Helm. • 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. • Experience in both quantitative modeling practices and coding. You will be assisting in the creation of models/strategies and working with other engineers on your team to productionalize this softwareYou work in project ideas with stakeholders, and peers • You own parts of product and technology & become subject matter experts • You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices. You test your code thoroughly • You help balance customer requirements with the team requirements • You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews • You classify, store, and handle data in accordance with FanDuel policies • You track security risks and mitigate and/or escalate them in a timely manner • You focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions • You take on projects and make software enhancements that improve the team software and processes • You work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it • You are able to 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 • You foster a constructive dialogue and seek resolutions in a professional way • You help recruit and interview for your team • You estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them in time • You mentor and help to develop others • On-call rotation where required. You provide excellent customer support • You keep yourself up to date with market standards, open-source frameworks • You build and evolve components that support real-time quoting and decisioning with careful attention to latency, throughput, and correctness • You partner with quants and stakeholders to define and monitor key metrics (e.g., quote ratio, win rate, expected vs realized margin, exposure/capital utilization) • 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 • Creative problem-solving ability • A passion for learning and always getting better

🏖️ Benefits

• Great financial package • Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefits.