Staff Software Engineer - Market Making

THE POSITIONOur roster has an opening with your name on itWe’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. This work spans the full RFQ/quote lifecycle (request → quote → accept → outcome) in low-latency, event-driven services. The team you will join works with quantitative analysts and trading/risk stakeholders to implement and run market making strategies, while proactively identifying opportunities for technical innovation within the Risk and Trading organization. Our stakeholders are the people who establish prices and manage risk for the #1 sports book in America! We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer. 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. The ideal candidate will have the confidence to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems and be eager to learn from and educate others. You will help make technical decisions that will impact the broader organisation. This necessitates empathetic communicators with a commitment to outreach, documentation, assisting others, and continuous improvement.You are a significant and autonomous contributor and leader. Your work is consistently of high quality. You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices. You lead your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant. You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them and when it is not. Your solutions are pragmatic. You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand. You limit the use of short-term workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimise incidental complexity). You create flexible software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies. You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc).We are looking for engineers to actively engage in technical discussions, assist in designing and implementing solutions, pair program with our more junior engineers, and deliver constant improvements to our systems. We want you to be excited about constantly learning and driving your professional development. You should have most, or all, of the following skills:Experience in both quantitative modeling practices and coding. You will be assisting in the creation of models/strategies and working with other engineers on your team to productionalize this software.You work in project ideas with stakeholders, and peersYou own parts of product and technology & become subject matter expertsYou write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices. You test your code thoroughlyYou help balance customer requirements with the team requirementsYou lead team evolution by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviewsYou classify, store, and handle data in accordance with FanDuel policiesYou track security risks and mitigate and/or escalate them in a timely mannerYou focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutionsYou take on projects and make software enhancements that improve the team software and processesYou work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found itYou are able to train new team-mates on how your team's software is constructed, how it operates, how secure it is, and how it fits into the bigger pictureYour influence extends beyond the team at and org levelYou foster a constructive dialogue and seek resolutions in a professional wayYou help recruit and interview for your teamYou estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them in timeYou mentor and help to develop othersOn-call rotation where required. You provide excellent customer supportYou keep yourself up to date with market standards, open-source frameworksYou build and evolve components that support real-time quoting and decisioning with careful attention to latency, throughput, and correctnessYou implement and maintain risk controls and guardrails (e.g., exposure checks, limits, throttling/filters, kill switch patterns)You ensure high-quality decision logging so strategies can be debugged, replayed, and improved using real quote/fill outcomesYou partner with quants and stakeholders to define and monitor key metrics (e.g., quote ratio, win rate, expected vs realized margin, exposure/capital utilization)Most importantly, you are; humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for kno