Senior Software Engineer - Core Marketing Platforms
FanDuel · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted about 2 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 73 days FanDuel's roles stay open a median of 79 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 74% of FanDuel's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at FanDuel
- high 86 stale, 4 reposted of 86 open
- Hiring momentum
- 140 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from FanDuel's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for FanDuel.
About this role
The Senior Software Engineer will join the Core Marketing Platforms team at FanDuel, focusing on building and optimizing high-performance microservices that support the marketing ecosystem. Responsibilities include designing scalable, event-driven systems, coaching other engineers, simplifying existing systems, and leading projects while ensuring code quality and best practices. The role also involves troubleshooting, participating in team discussions, and contributing to the professional development of colleagues.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of FanDuel as an employer.
What you need
- Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong backend experience with Java
- Experience with AWS and understanding of DevOps concepts such as IaC (we use Terraform)
- Experience with event streaming technologies such as SNS/SQS or Kafka
- Good grasp on relational, non-relational databases, messaging queues and handling concurrency
- Experience working with high volume systems
What you get
- Interesting work in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry
- A sense of achievement from owning software and receiving positive feedback
- Clear and defined career pathways with a supportive manager
- Loads of learning opportunities and 10% of time dedicated to learning
- A trusting work environment valuing productivity and autonomy
- Great financial package including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Focus on simplifying existing systems may indicate legacy code challenges
- On-call support rotation may imply additional responsibilities outside regular hours
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Listed by FanDuel on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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