Staff Data Engineer

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.  

In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, 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 POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

FanDuel is looking for an experienced Staff Data Engineer with deep understanding of large-scale data handling and processing best practices in a cloud environment to help us build scalable systems. As our data is a key component of the business used by almost every facet of the company, including product development, marketing, operations, and finance. It is vital that we deliver robust solutions that ensure reliable access to data with a focus on quality and availability.

We're seeking dynamic professionals to join our business-critical Risk and Trading data team at FanDuel, where you'll harness cutting-edge technologies to support risk analysis, pricing models, and trading operations. Collaborate with a broad array of Risk, Trading and Fraud stakeholders and deploy crucial data assets to advance operational and machine learning use cases. 

Our competitive edge comes from making decisions based on accurate and timely data and your work will provide access to that data across the whole company. Looking ahead to the next phase of our data platform we are keen to do more with real time data processing and working with our data scientists to create machine learning pipelines.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Creating and maintaining optimal data pipelines.
• Lead designing and implementing data pipelines required in the data warehouse and data lake in batch or real-time using data transformation technologies
• Identifying, designing, and implementing internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.
• Lead designing and deploying data models and views with large datasets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Lead delivering data integration solutions to downstream marketing and campaign software
• Lead delivering quality production-ready code in an agile environment.
• Lead delivering test plans, monitoring, debugging and technical documents as a part of development cycle.
• Lead creating data tools for analytics and working with stakeholders across all departments to assist with data-related technical issues and supporting their data infrastructure needs. Work closely with data architect and product manager to deliver such initiatives.
• Drive engineering and operational excellence within their team
  
  
  

THE STATS
What we're looking for in our next teammate

• 5-7+ years of experience writing Python & SQL
• Must have 2-4+ years of experience with DBT
• Proficiency in developing Apache Spark applications using PySpark (Databricks knowledge is a plus)
• Proficiency in relational databases and data warehouses (Delta Lake knowledge is a plus)
• Understanding and working experience with AWS
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.
• Show proficiency understanding complex ETL processes.
• Understanding of Risk and/or Fraud terminology
• Knowledge of data integrity and relational rules.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies is critical.
• Proficiency with agile or lean development practices.
  
  
  

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right

We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits. We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits , pet insurance, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards. *Benefits differ across location, role, and level.

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 another other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.

 

The applicable salary range for this position is $158,000 - $208,000, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

 

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