Staff Software Engineer - Market Making

fanduel.design

Remote
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Low-latency, event-driven services
Quantitative modeling practices and coding
Real-time quoting and decisioning
** FanDuel is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Market Making Engineering team, which focuses on developing high-performance software for real-time sports market pricing and risk management. The role requires strong technical skills, leadership capabilities, and a commitment to continuous improvement and collaboration. **

Job Summary

  • We’re growing our Market Making Engineering team that works on some of the coolest software in the industry - the systems that quote, price, and manage risk in real time for high-volume, high-velocity sports markets.
  • As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead an empowered, multidisciplinary team, autonomously tackling complex challenges that provide the very best experiences and products for a growing community of millions of players.
  • From our many opportunities for professional development to our generous insurance and paid leave policies, we’re committed to making sure our employees get as much out of FanDuel as we ask them to give.

Matching Summary

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** FanDuel is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Market Making Engineering team, which focuses on developing high-performance software for real-time sports market pricing and risk management. The role requires strong technical skills, leadership capabilities, and a commitment to continuous improvement and collaboration. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • low-latency, event-driven services
  • quantitative modeling practices and coding
  • real-time quoting and decisioning
  • risk controls and guardrails
  • high-quality decision logging
  • streaming technologies (Kafka is nice to have)
  • event-driven / real-time systems

Nice-to-have

  • pragmatic solutions to complex problems
  • empathetic communicators
  • continuous improvement
  • creative problem-solving ability
  • passion for learning
  • challenging the norm
  • humble, pragmatic, self-managed

Key Requirements

  • 7 or more years of industry experience
  • 7 or more years of software development experience
  • Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related discipline
  • Proficient in building services with a modern OOP language
  • Understanding of performance, hardware, and lower level memory management
  • Fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms
  • Proficient in working with GitOps Patterns
  • Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tooling
  • Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies
  • Knowledge of AWS
  • Experience interacting and designing relational databases
  • Ability to document code, research, and designs clearly
  • Proficiency in translating requirements into design
  • Understanding of containers and orchestration
  • Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and on call support
  • Experience with unit testing, testing tools, integrating testing
  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • Familiarity with concepts like exposure, hedging, inventory/position, and performance measurement
  • Experience with backtesting/simulation, replay tooling, or strategy evaluation workflows

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