Lead Software Engineer - Fanduel, Hybrid

Lead Software Engineer - FanDuel, Hybrid Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world’s leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.

The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.

Win Together | Raise the Bar | Got Your Back | Own It | Positive Impact

FanDuel is a leading force in the sports-tech entertainment industry, redefining how fans engage with their favourite sports, teams, and leagues. As the premier gaming destination in North America, FanDuel operates across multiple verticals, including sports betting, daily fantasy sports, online gaming, advance-deposit wagering, and media.

Exposure to emerging innovative technologies in business applications is an advantage!

What We’re Looking For?

Your mission will be to give sports fans experiences they can’t wait to share with their friends.

Our Lead Engineers are part of a community of our most senior engineers focusing on the organisation’s 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 organisation’s “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.

What Will You Do?

• Own your teams’ architecture, aligning with the vertical’s Principal Engineers on a common technical strategy.
• Take ownership of a team’s operational excellence, taking a hands on approach to the resolution of the teams’ most complex issues when needed.
• Write simple code, taking complex 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 team(s), 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., AI, Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards for your vertical.
• Help others leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring in your organisation. Contribute to the professional development of Engineers within the vertical, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.
• Support our software as part of an on-call rotation.
• What we’re looking for in our next teammate.

Desired Experience & Qualifications:

Key Skills:

• Expert level experience building and designing highly scalable, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
• Experience influencing technical decisions across 1-2 agile engineering teams.
• Understand a broad range of complex data structures and complex algorithms.
• Expert level understanding of design patterns and architectural principles.
• Experienced in making pragmatic trade-off decisions between short term needs and long-term needs.
• Experienced in many modern programming languages (ideally Java)
• Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and best practices through influence.

Essential:

• Proven experience writing distributed, highly scalable, and available backend systems & APIs using Java SE and/or Java EE: beans, concurrency, transactions, I/O, servlets, messaging, application monitoring, ORM (Hibernate, JPA);
• Knowledge of release process best practices for APIs and services within production systems - build tools (e.g. BuildKite, Maven, Gradle), version control (e.g. git) and continuous integration systems (e.g. Jenkins).
• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS.
• A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Hands-on experience with unit testing/mocking frameworks (e.g. junit, mockito).
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and software best practices.
• Experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC
• Desire to learn and develop your skills through a growth mindset
• Passion for working within a fast-paced environment and can adapt to change

Desirable:

• Experience with using AI coding assistants and agentic models such as CoPilot, Cursor in a business setting
• Exposure to Linux operating systems.
• Experience using non relational databases (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase).
• Familiarity with AWS / Cloud Computing (e.g. S3, SQS, SNS);
• Experience with analysis & monitoring tools (e.g. DataDog, NewRelic);
• Contact with messaging technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka);
• Container experience (e.g. Docker);
• Knowledge of caching systems (e.g. Redis);
• Understanding of the full development cycle and some experience of Agile development methodologies and supporting tools e.g. JIRA, Confluence.

Benefits:

• Hybrid & remote working options
• €1,000 per year for self-development
• Company share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave per year
• 20 days per year to work abroad
• 5 personal days/year
• Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
• Extended health, dental and travel insurances
• Customized well-being programmes
• Career growth sessions
• Thousands of online courses through Udemy
• A variety of engaging office events

Disclaimer:

We are an inclusive employer. By embracing diverse experiences and perspectives, we create a lasting, positive impact for our employees, customers, and the communities we’re part of. You don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you, let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only the candidates who best meet the job requirements will be contacted for an interview. By submitting your application online, you agree that your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than three years, to consider you for prospective roles within the company.