Job description
The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we’d love to speak to you.
FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans every day. That’s no easy task, and wouldn’t be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging, we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.
The Position
Joining our Release Engineering team, you will be a Staff Platform Engineer with experience working in a cloud environment with Python (or similar). You’ll be working in an internal development team focusing on improving our ephemeral and long-lived developer testing environments.
In this role you’ll get to see the benefit that you provide to your customers (our other development teams) on a daily basis and see the positive impact and difference you can make to their working lives.
As the team expands, there will be increasing focus on not only improving, but defining what the next steps are for our developer testing environment posture at FanDuel.
Our relevant tech stack includes: Python, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Aurora, S3, AWS API gateway and Buildkite. We don’t expect experience with all of these - the team will support you in learning and developing your skillset, and FanDuel advocates for continuous learning!
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Taking the lead in shaping our dev testing environments, while actively supporting our existing posture
- Defining what tech needs are, to support our daily business
- Creating and promoting best practices generally in your role, but specifically around managing the dev testing environments
- Guiding and teaching developers how to best implement and build
- Working with other Staff Platform Engineers in the Deploy group, shaping common design patterns and practices
- Be a team player, reflecting FanDuel values everyday
What We’re Looking For
- Would be nice if you have developer testing environment experience
- Strong experience in application development (ideally Python)
- Strong experience with CI tools and managing their deployment controls (e.g. gated promotion pipelines in Jenkins)
- Good Understanding of source control management and integrations (e.g. GitHub configurations)
- Extensive experience building cloud-based solutions and configurations (ideally with AWS)
- Keen to learn and work with new technologies
- Ability to build relationships with colleagues across the company
What You Can Expect
- 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 their own software and 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 - clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, loads of learning opportunities and even 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.
- Belonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together 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.
The Interview Process
- Recruiter Screening - 30mins
- Competency Interview - 60mins
- Technical Paired Programming Exercise (Python) - 60mins
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We endeavour to make our interview process as accessible as possible. If you need any assistance prior to your interview, including any reasonable adjustments, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don’t tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.
Location: Our Scottish tech hub is based in central Edinburgh and is fitted with fabulous amenities including a gym, showers, bike parking, gaming pods, multiple breakout areas, meeting rooms, a roof terrace and much more.
We operate a hybrid model for the majority of our roles, where we normally spend a day or two in the office per week.
