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SENIOR PERFORMANCE ENGINEER

Location:Edinburgh/Hybrid

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FanDuel Group is a collection of brands operating at the intersection of sports,
gaming, tech, and entertainment. Our mission is to give sports fans the chance
to win everyday and create experiences they can’t wait to share with their
friends.

We’re not just a company, we’re a collective. And we’re not just coworkers,
we’re a community. We’re an all-hands-on-deck crew of dreamers, doers, thinkers,
makers, builders, breakers, and rebuilders. We value teamwork above all else,
and we believe that diversity and inclusiveness are at the core of any good
team. Like any good sports team, we’ve got passion. Passion for building a
product our customers will love, passion for being the best in our field, and
passion for our own people. With a company that’s as committed to its people as
it is to its customers, FanDuel Group is a great place to develop yourself and
your career.

SUMMARY OF THE ROLE

We’re looking for passionate & experienced performance engineers who are strong
communicators and have a commitment to continuous improvement. The ideal
candidate will have performance engineering experience as well as the confidence
to propose and implement capabilities & pragmatic solutions to complex problems
that allow software development teams to conduct performance testing of new, or
changes to existing, software developments. As a senior performance engineer,
you will work within a team that provides performance testing and
experimentation expertise to development teams across FanDuel Group and also
bridges performance testing capabilities to allow those teams to self-serve. You
will own and become subject matter experts of areas of performance engineering
technology stack and will be the go to person for those areas. You thrive on
technological advancement of the team and always working towards its
improvement.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

You provide direct or consultative performance engineering expertise to
development teams or projects that span a small set of development teams. You
aim to have development teams self-serve as much as feasibly possibly but also
may need to drive performance engineering risk mitigation efforts for a project
or change. Your work is also typically focused on building and maintaining
performance engineering infrastructure for development teams.

Accountabilities:

 * You provide either direct or consultative expertise to development teams in
   conducting performance testing or risk analysis for the most common
   software/hardware solutions within FanDuel; this involves test planning, test
   implementation, monitoring, results analysis and process improvements.
 * You develop, test, and deploy software for performance engineering
   infrastructure or work with development teams to bridge capability gaps that
   enables those teams to better self-serve in performance testing their
   systems.
 * You conduct holistic performance testing of our suite of products where
   appropriate e.g. during Game Days.
 * You assess where risk of not testing areas may be acceptable where other
   mitigations may be more preferable.
 * You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices.
   You test your code thoroughly.
 * You determine valuable models for load profiles for a service via historical
   data (often provided by Production Operations) or prediction models (often
   provided by Product Operations or is self-determined derived from historical
   data).
 * You carry out or advise development teams on how to carry out descriptive or
   inferential statistical analysis appropriately as a means of providing more
   meaningful analysis of results data; e.g. univariate, bivariate and
   multivariate analysis.
 * You provide or advise development teams on comprehensive yet concisely
   evaluations with examples on the impacts of poor performance or failures as a
   consequence of not mitigating an identified risk in an area where they have a
   specialism in.
 * You mentor Software Engineers or Quality Engineers in performance engineering
   practices.
 * You contribute to post-mortems and correction of errors in other verticals.
 * You help balance customer (development team) requirements with the
   performance engineering team requirements.
 * You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review
   process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews.
 * You work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software
   better and easier to maintain than when you found it.
 * You 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 picture.
 * You foster a constructive dialogue and seek resolutions in a professional
   way.
 * You help recruit and interview for your team.
 * You estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them in time.
 * You mentor and help to develop others. 
 * You keep yourself up to date with market standards and open-source
   frameworks.
 * Most importantly, you are; humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for
   knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ABILITIES

 * Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
 * Strong performance testing grounding with experience developing and
   implementing performance test strategies.
 * Experience with testing and monitoring tools and performance load simulators.
 * Experience for writing distributed, highly scalable and available test
   infrastructure, backend systems or APIs using Java and/or Python or similar
   programming languages.
 * 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.
 * Experience with implementing, working with, improving continuous integration
   pipelines (such as Jenkins and Puppet)
 * Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies,
   preferably AWS.

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.
 * 10% time, hackathons, conferences and a manager committed to your career
   development.
 * A healthy work/life balance through flexible working and untracked holidays.
 * Pension, Attractive health insurance premiums.

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

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

 




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