Remote-First Trust & Safety Software Engineer (React/Java)

FanDuel; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Hybrid Edinburgh office 2 days a week

Generous leave policy

Private healthcare

Pension

Share save scheme

Flexible working

Holiday policy

Job summary

FanDuel is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Trust & Safety team within the CPE Platform, working across Core Products and Experiences. You will contribute to building reliable, engaging software and collaborate with multidisciplinary peers in a hybrid Edinburgh role.

You will work on React-based Responsible Gaming tools and backend Java services to process signals at scale, participate in reviews, and improve documentation while supporting a healthy work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with React and frontend tooling.
• Proficiency in Java or a similar OOP language.
• Familiarity with databases and SQL.
• Understanding of data structures and software design principles.
• Interest in platform integrity, fraud detection, or compliance systems is a plus.
• Experience with distributed systems and scalable services.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, containers, or CI/CD is helpful.
• Willingness to write tests as part of daily work.
• Strong collaboration and communication within a team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Trust & Safety to build Responsible Gaming tools.
• Develop and maintain React-based tooling and interfaces.
• Write clear backend services and APIs in Java.
• Ensure APIs and services scale to high traffic.
• Contribute to code reviews, planning, and team ceremonies.
• Investigate issues and implement practical fixes.
• Keep documentation up to date.
• Partner with product, ops, and compliance stakeholders.

Skills

Hands-on React experience

Java programming

Databases & SQL

Distributed systems knowledge

Testing basics & TDD

Cloud, containers & CI/CD

Team collaboration & communication

Problem solving & judgement

Tools

React tooling

APIs & microservices

SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

FanDuel is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Trust & Safety team within the CPE Platform, working across Core Products and Experiences. You will contribute to building reliable, engaging software and collaborate with multidisciplinary peers in a hybrid Edinburgh role.

You will work on React-based Responsible Gaming tools and backend Java services to process signals at scale, participate in reviews, and improve documentation while supporting a healthy work-life balance.