Data API Engineer

FanDuel; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

FanDuel Group is seeking a Data API Engineer to design, build and maintain REST API endpoints powering fraud-relevant analytics, data pipelines and ML-driven insights. You’ll work on scalable software and data applications, collaborating with stakeholders across product, data science and engineering.

The role emphasizes practical problem solving, writing clean code in Python/Flask, and deploying on Kubernetes with ArgoCD.

Qualifications

• Experience designing REST APIs and data-driven applications.
• Experience with batch and streaming data ingestion.
• Familiar with SQL/NoSQL databases and data pipelines.
• Strong collaboration with data scientists, analysts and product managers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable API applications with low latency.
• Develop batch and streaming data ingestion and data pipelines.
• Implement REST endpoints on Kubernetes using API gateways.
• Ensure API responses are reliable, accurate and timely.
• Write clean, well-documented code with tests.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and product managers.
• Monitor applications and troubleshoot issues promptly.

Skills

Collaboration

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Tools

Python

Flask

PostgreSQL

Redis NoSQL

Kubernetes

API Gateway Kong

ArgoCD

PySpark

Job description

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans every day. That’s no easy task and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry.

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

We are looking for a Data API Engineer (Software Engineer with interest in Data applications) to join our growing team and help build the Applications with REST API endpoints to provide recommendations based on data pipelines, ML Model and infrastructure that power analytics, machine learning, and drive business and customer insights across the company. In this role, you’ll contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of reliable Fraud recommendation applications while collaborating with stakeholders to support high-impact data use cases.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical contributor who enjoys working with building software and data applications at scale, solving practical problems, and continuously learning in a fast-paced environment. If you’re excited by this challenge and want to work within a dynamic company, then we’d love to hear from you.

THE GAME PLAN

Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Design, build, and maintain scalable Python Flask API applications or similar programming languages to achieve low latency response.
• Understanding and experience in developing batch and stream data ingestion or developed applications leveraging SQL database like Postrgres DB or NoSQL/Redis DB.
• Implemented REST API endpoints on Kubernetes cluster using API Gateway like KONG.
• Ensure API response is reliable, accurate, and delivered in a timely manner.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code and test cases using tools like Python, SQL, and Pyspark (optional).
• Understands containerization and Kubernetes deployment using ArgoCD.

Collaborate Across Teams

• Partner with Senior Engineers in code reviews, design discussions, planning sessions and team ceremonies, asking questions and sharing ideas
• Work with data analysts, data scientists, and product managers to understand requirements andn deliver actionable data solutions
• Translate business questions into engineering tasks and contribute to technical planning.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives as part of an agile team.

Quality & Operations

• Monitor applications and troubleshoot issues in a timely, systematic manner
• Implement data quality checks and contribute to observability and testing practices
• Document data sources, transformations, and architecture decisions to support long-term maintainability

PLAYER CONTRACT

We treat our team right

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.