Description

The Role...

As a Lead Software Engineer, you are part of a Software Development Team, responsible for the full lifecycle of an application. Reporting to a Delivery Manager in a FanDuel team formed by 5 Developers and 1 QA, you will be using cutting-edge technologies to deliver amazing value to our customers, while scaling our platform to meet the demands of the US market. You will lead the design, implementation, and delivery of software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces while you will be required to program well-designed, testable, efficient code to solve complex and ambiguous problem, as well as testing and documenting the implemented solutions.

You will lead the team in best practices and support them addressing new problems as we continue to push technology forward and our fast-paced business, grow and evolve.

What You'll be Doing... 

Team player on an Agile team, working together to keep delivering at pace, scale and with demanded quality to support our products;

• Provide guidance, mentoring and lead the team in best practices across technologies in large projects;
• Execute full software development life cycle;
• Develop technical solutions in an inventive, secure, easily maintainable, appropriately scalable, and extensible way to complex business problems;
• Develop/perform tests of all new and existing software to ensure they are free of errors and function as intended, with the guidance of team's QA;
• Documents and demonstrates solutions/features by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts and code comments;
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems;
• Deploy applications in a Continuous Integration platform;
• Ensure software is updated with latest features / versions in a timely manner;

What We're Looking For... 

At least 5 years working with Java 8+ and/or development experience of a high concurrency/high transactional platform;

• Strong data structures, algorithms and design patterns knowledge;
• Experience working with Kafka and message queueing systems;
• Knowledge of Scala, Akka, Memcached, Apache Storm, Apache Cassandra, ZooKeeper;
• Used to work with Client-server protocols such as SOAP, REST;
• Proactive attitude;
• . Test-oriented mindset
• Excellent communicator, common sense and a passion for the art of problem solving;
• Awareness and experience in using agile methodologies;
• Familiarity with configuration management e.g. Chef, Ansible;
• Passion for building a great consumer product that our customers will love;
• Ability to interact effectively with other functional teams;

If you are our missing piece, apply here:

https://apply.blip.pt/jobs/vacancy/lead-software-engineerfanduel-0359-porto/371/description/