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Software Engineer - Java
FanDuel
Software Engineering
United Kingdom · Remote
Posted on Aug 11, 2025
ABOUT FANDUEL
FanDuel Group (“FanDuel") 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 United States, FanDuel consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media.
FanDuel has a presence across all 50 states with approximately 17 million customers and 28 retail locations. FanDuel is based in New York with offices in New Jersey, Georgia, California, Oregon, Canada and Scotland.
Its networks FanDuel TV and FanDuel+ are broadly distributed on linear cable television and through its relationships with leading direct-to-consumer over-the-top platforms.
FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, 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 ROSTER
At FanDuel, we give fans a new and innovative way to interact with their favorite games, sports and teams. We’re dedicated to building a winning team and we pride ourselves on being able to make every moment mean more, especially when it comes to your career. So, what does “winning” look like at FanDuel? It’s recognition for your hard-earned results, a culture that brings out your best work—and a roster full of talented coworkers. Make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From creatives professionals to cutting edge technology innovators, FanDuel offers a wide range of career opportunities, best in class benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. At FanDuel, our principle of “We Are One Team” runs through all our offices across the globe, and you can expect to be a part of an exciting company with many opportunities to grow and be successful.
THE POSITION
We’re looking for passionate & experienced technologists, strong communicators and those with a commitment to continuous improvement.
The ideal candidate will have the confidence to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems and be eager to learn from and educate others. As a Software Engineer working for our Sportsbook vertical, you will work in empowered, multidisciplinary teams, autonomously tackling complex challenges that provide the very best experiences and products as we build out an exciting and innovative customer experience within the fast paced and growing sports betting environment.
You will own and become subject matter experts of areas of your product and technology stack and will be the go to person for those areas. You are considered a Software Engineer on your team. You work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things with limited guidance. Your work focuses on complex, ambiguous problem areas in existing or new software initiatives. You take the long-term view. You consider where each system is at in its life cycle and where appropriate, proactively fix architecture deficiencies. You can take the lead on new features and deliver it End to End. You enjoy coaching and developing other software engineers' technical skills.
THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play
As a Software Engineer with a drive for operating through ambiguity, we are looking for your ex
As a Software Engineer with a drive for operating through ambiguity, we are looking for your expertise in Java development to complement our specialist teams, with a desire to learn existing technologies across our stack, champion the adoption of new technologies and techniques where they will add value and help deliver great products our customers come to expect from us.
Our engineering teams work in an agile environment, but it's the autonomy and empowerment given to our multi-functional teams that makes the big difference. We utilise methods for delivery, quality and collective improvement that work for them, not a one size fits all approach. That's what allows our teams to deliver on a constant cycle without external dependencies.
- Responsible for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
- You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices. You test your code thoroughly
- 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 understand the maintenance characteristics, run-time properties, and dependencies or your team's software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.
- You clearly document your software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components you build.
- You provide excellent customer support on an on-call rotation where required
- In the event of a problem, you can troubleshoot, research the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects.
- You provide excellent customer support.
- You participate in the interview process and help your team train SE interns.
- You will keep yourself up to date with market standards, open-source frameworks.
- Most importantly, you are; humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm.
THE STATS
What we’re looking for in our next teammate
- Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience building and designing highly scalable, fault tolerant and always available systems
- Experience of Java development
- Grasp in a broad range of data structures and algorithms
- Experience working with a high concurrency/high transactional/highly available platform
- Proficiency in translating requirements into design and developing applications.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms and pipelines
- Ability to understand the dependencies between components and how they combine to deliver service to the consumer and business
- Familiarity working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies (e.g AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices into the SDLC
- Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and best practices.
- In-Depth understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
- Familiarity with git, GitHub, Jira, and Confluence
- You are passionate about working within a fast-paced environments and can adapt to change
PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right
- Interesting work - Working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons.
- A sense of achievement - Our teams own the outcome. When that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created.
- Personal development – We strive to create clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level and give our employees the tools they need to learn, develop, and become leaders.
- Belonging - Everyone at FanDuel supports one another: we win together, make mistakes together to learn from them and to focus on the future, and have lots of fun doing it.
- Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work.
- Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy, along with a number of other benefits.
FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.