FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media, including FanDuel, Betfair US, DRAFT, and TVG. FanDuel Group has a presence across 45 states and 8 million customers. The company is based in New York with offices in California, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon, and Scotland.

What does a Performance Test Engineer do at FanDuel?

FanDuel is a technology company first. Our mission may be to ‘Make Sports More Exciting’ but from day one we knew that we could only do so by investing in engineering. As a performance test engineer you’ll join an industry-shaping department that constantly pushes for innovation and change.

As a Performance Engineer you will be a key member of the FanDuel product development function, measuring the impact of enhancements to ensure we continually improve the gaming experience for our millions of players. Additionally you will be a real asset to our engineering teams, by providing them with the support to enable them to conduct effective performance testing early and regularly as part of their development lifecycle.

Working with a range of disciplines including developers, system architects and devops engineers, you will have the opportunity to learn new skills and teach others.

If you like coming up with solutions for new problems, if you like to come up with new solutions for old problems, if you like to constantly develop and challenge your preconceptions - then FanDuel is for you.

What you can expect

• Anything - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons.
• A sense of achievement - when that unprecedented traffic level is handled beautifully and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created.
• Constant change - when that feature has shipped, how do we build on it and improve it? What is the next thing we’re working on?
• Community - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we solve problems together, we learn together and we like to have some fun too

Characteristics of successful candidates

• Strong performance testing grounding with experience developing and implementing performance test strategies
• Experience with testing and monitoring tools and performance load simulators
• Familiarity of an full scale production-like environment, particularly web, Java and Python technologies in a scalable, concurrent, high-availability enterprise
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and queueing services
• Test automation scripting and iteration including test data management
• Monitoring, analysing and reporting performance test results
• Proven clear and confident communication skills, to convey information to non-technical
• The drive to constantly learn and improve
• Not being afraid to speak up and voice opinions
• Burning desire to help create great things 

Stretch-Goal Characteristics

• Familiarity with principles of distributed systems and microservices
• Exposure to automation testing, either coding or designing tests
• Exposure to continuous integration concepts and tools (such as Jenkins and Puppet)
• A good understanding of cloud based architectures (we use AWS)
• Python coding experience, or other object oriented languages such as Java

What you get in return

Beyond working with such a great team?

• An exciting environment with real growth
• Contribute to exciting products used by a highly passionate user base
• Personal learning and development opportunities
• Flexible holiday allowance
• 401K plan
• Attractive health insurance premiums

There's more, but we don't want to go on and on.

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgment or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.