FanDuel Internship 2027–2028: Programs, Deadlines & How to Apply

Last updated: August 2026

FanDuel's Summer League is a 10-week paid internship inside the sportsbook that holds 41% of all US sportsbook gross gaming revenue – and you will not find a single one of its intern roles on FanDuel's own job board. Every Summer League posting lives on RippleMatch instead, exactly what FanDuel's own Early Careers page tells you: "If you are looking for a position on our Summer League roster, check out our openings on RippleMatch." As of mid-August 2026, FanDuel's own board carries 96 open roles and zero US internships, so the summer-2027 wave has not opened yet. The documented pattern says it will not open until roughly mid-October to late December 2026, with more tracks posting into February 2027. FanDuel publishes no application deadline anywhere, and its own site says to apply ASAP because it moves fast – one 2026 track went up and came back down again in about two weeks.

Quick Facts

FanDuel hides its own internship: every Summer League track posts on RippleMatch, not fanduel.careers, and the summer-2027 window is expected in December 2026, not the fall most guides assume.

Externships are short, remote professional experience programs where you finish a real project with a real company. Extern has no sportsbook or regulated-gaming externship to match FanDuel's own trading desk, but the NASCAR / NY Racing Sports Analytics Externship and the Wayfair AI Agent Engineering for Business Intelligence Externship build the sports-data and applied-ML evidence FanDuel's own job descriptions reward. Explore all Externships.

What Is a FanDuel Internship?

A FanDuel internship is a paid, 10-week Summer League placement across seven tracks – Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, Sports Trader, Corporate Strategy, Procurement and Commercial – inside the company that runs the leading US sportsbook, wholly owned by Flutter Entertainment plc (NYSE: FLUT) after Flutter took full ownership in 2025. Interns work out of Atlanta, Jersey City or New York on a hybrid schedule, and the reviews line up with a company that is genuinely engineering-heavy: FanDuel was named #15 on Vault's 2026 Best Tech & Engineering Internships list, plus top-20 for Quality of Assignments, and won RippleMatch's Campus Forward Award in both 2024 and 2025. FanDuel's US segment posted $6.97 billion in revenue in fiscal 2025, up 20% year over year, and parent Flutter invested $991 million in technology R&D group-wide – the honest answer to why the intern class skews so heavily toward engineering and data roles.

When Do FanDuel Internship Applications Open for 2027–2028?

FanDuel does not post its Summer League tracks all at once, and it does not post them in the fall the way most tech internship guides assume. Across four documented cycles the wave has opened between mid-October and late December, engineering and data roles first, with additional tracks (MBA, Procurement, Commercial and Sports Trader) posting all the way into February. The 2026 cycle's Software Engineering Intern role went up around November 25 and was gone by December 10 – roughly two weeks live. So for summer 2027 you are most likely applying in December 2026, not September, and every track carries its own window inside that spread.

How to read this page: our dates come from tracking previous recruiting cycles and daily posting data. Treat them as informed estimates based on historical patterns, not confirmed dates. The company's official careers page is always the most current source. If a role is posted there, go by that, even if this page suggests the window hasn't opened yet.

Why You Must Apply the Week Applications Open

FanDuel publishes no closing date on any of its 96 open requisitions, across seven tracks, in four documented recruiting cycles. That is not the same as unlimited time. FanDuel's own How We Hire page says plainly: "If a role feels like the right fit, apply ASAP – we move fast and start interviews quickly." The summer-2026 Software Engineering Intern posting went up around November 25, 2025 and was gone roughly two weeks later, while other tracks were still going up in December and February. There is no single day when "the program" opens; each track posts on its own schedule inside a three-month spread, and a track that comes and goes before you notice it is the single easiest seat to lose on this page.

Which FanDuel Internship Programs Should You Target?

FanDuel runs one named program, Summer League, with seven function-specific tracks inside it. There is no umbrella application; you apply to a track, and each one has its own graduation window and office-day requirement.

See all seven tracks on the RippleMatch application page – FanDuel's own careers site names the program but never lists the open roles. Engineering and data tracks post first; MBA, Procurement, Commercial and Sports Trader follow into February.

What Are the Eligibility Requirements?

FanDuel states its core requirements the same way across all 13 intern job descriptions read in full:

• Graduation window, not class year: every requisition states a degree-completion range instead of "junior/senior." Software Engineering wants August 2026–June 2027; Data Engineering and Data Science open the window as wide as June 2028; Sports Trader wants December 2026–June 2027.

• Work authorization – the hardest gate on the page: every US intern posting since 2024 states, "Must have U.S. Work Authorization and does not require employer sponsorship now or in the future." FanDuel does not sponsor interns.

• Office commitment: most tracks require being in office 2+ times per week; Corporate Strategy asks for 3+ days, and Sports Trader is 5 days a week on the trading floor in Jersey City.

• GPA: not published anywhere. No figure appears in any of the 13 US intern job descriptions read in full – the only GPA language on FanDuel's boards is on the non-US Canadian co-ops.

Does FanDuel Have a GPA Cutoff?

No published one, anywhere. All 13 surviving US intern job descriptions across four cycles skip GPA entirely, a genuinely unusual absence compared to most of this page series. What actually gates you is different: the no-sponsorship line is a hard stop if you need a visa, and the Sports Trader track adds a real regulatory gate on top – eligibility for a New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement license, whose stated age floor moved from 21 in the 2024 posting to 18 in the 2026 one (both read from third-party mirrors of expired listings, so treat the number as unconfirmed until the 2027 posting goes live).

What Skills Does FanDuel Look For, and How Do You Build Them?

FanDuel had zero live US intern postings on August 15, 2026 – its own Greenhouse board carried 96 open roles and none of them were internships – so this chart comes from reading 13 real FanDuel intern job descriptions across the 2023 through 2026 cycles. The pattern holds up well: working in a team-oriented environment shows up in 9 of 13, and interest or prior experience in a heavily regulated, real-money gaming industry appears in 8 of 13, a genuinely FanDuel-specific ask most other tech internships never mention. Quantitative problem-solving and SQL plus Python round out the top of the list.

How Is Demand for Software Engineering Interns Moving Right Now?

Build These Skills Before You Apply

Every skill in the chart maps to a remote Externship where you finish a real company project before FanDuel's window opens – though nothing in Extern's catalog touches sportsbook trading itself.

None of these substitute for the New Jersey gaming license the Sports Trader track requires, but they are the closest documented match to what FanDuel's own postings actually reward: real analysis on real data, applied ML, and a finished project you can point to in the interview's technical round.

What Is the FanDuel Application and Interview Process Like?

FanDuel publishes its own funnel in full, so there is no guessing involved:

1. Go to the right door. FanDuel's own job board will never show you an internship – create a free RippleMatch profile and join the Summer League Talent Community before the window opens.

2. Pick a track and apply the week it posts. There is no umbrella application; engineering and data tracks post first (roughly October to December), while MBA, procurement, commercial and trading follow (roughly January to February).

3. Recruiter screen, then a HireVue video screening for the internship, per Vault's reporting on the program.

4. First interview, virtual, with team stakeholders on role and fit.

5. Second interview – one-on-one or panel – mixing behavioral STAR questions with a technical or case component and sometimes a skills test. FanDuel says this stage can take up to five days to hear back.

6. Final interview with a senior leader, explicitly a culture-fit round against FanDuel's ten Principles, then an offer via DocuSign and a pre-employment background check.

There is no standalone coding assessment. Vault's interns report the real technical bar is a live conversation, not a HackerRank test – and FanDuel's own hiring team has asked interview questions like, "What is the probability you make 1 of 2 free throws from the free throw line if you shoot 70%?" Practice probability under pressure, not LeetCode; our HireVue question guide with a free AI mock tool runs the same time pressure.

What Students on Reddit Say

Three threads show the timing question, the interview reality, and the honest objection every FanDuel applicant eventually asks.

How Do You Stand Out for a FanDuel Internship?

Three moves, all doable before the window opens. First, be in RippleMatch before FanDuel's own job board even shows a role – the Summer League tracks are not on fanduel.careers, are not on FanDuel's Greenhouse board, and are not reliably on general job aggregators either. A student who discovers this in December has already lost the head start. Second, show you understand a regulated business, not just a sports app: "prior experience working in a heavily regulated industry is beneficial" appears in four of the five most recent intern postings, and gaming or DFS interest shows up in eight of thirteen – a project that touches compliance, auditability or data governance reads better here than a generic app. Third, you do not need a target school. FanDuel's own recruiting team says it keeps "a very short list of focus schools" but reviews applicants from any institution, and its most recent intern class represented nearly 20 different schools. Use FanDuel's own ten Principles – Everything Begins with the Customer, Own the Outcome, and the rest – as the frame for your STAR stories, because the final interview round is explicitly a culture-fit interview.

What Other Companies Should You Consider?

FanDuel's obvious real-world competitor is DraftKings, which is not on our list of pages yet – the closest published comparison is the rest of the Sports category: league offices and operators with different calendars and different jobs.

None of FanDuel's Sports-category peers have a published guide yet, so treat these as names to research directly for now. Our sports internships summer 2027 guide maps the wider field, timeline by timeline.

FAQ

Can I still apply for a summer 2026 FanDuel internship?

No. FanDuel's summer-2026 Summer League requisitions posted between late November 2025 and February 2026, and that cohort ran May 27 to August 7, 2026. As of August 15, 2026, FanDuel's board carried 96 open roles and zero US internships. The next cycle is summer 2027, expected to open around October to December 2026.

When do FanDuel internship applications open for summer 2027?

Expect around mid-October to late December 2026, most likely December, with more tracks posting into February 2027. That is projected from four documented cycles: engineering and data roles appeared in October 2023 and late November 2025, while trading and MBA roles appeared in January and February. FanDuel publishes no dates of its own.

Where do I actually apply for a FanDuel internship?

On RippleMatch, not FanDuel's careers site. FanDuel's Early Careers page says plainly, "If you are looking for a position on our Summer League roster, check out our openings on RippleMatch." Create a free profile in advance and join the Summer League Talent Community so you see roles the week they post.

Is the FanDuel internship rolling, or is there a deadline?

Neither exactly. FanDuel publishes no application deadline on any requisition, and its own careers page says, "If a role feels like the right fit, apply ASAP – we move fast and start interviews quickly." One summer-2026 software engineering role was advertised for roughly two weeks before being pulled. Apply the week your track posts.

Do you have to be 21 to intern at FanDuel?

Not generally. No age requirement appears in FanDuel's 96 live requisitions or in eleven of the thirteen intern job descriptions reviewed. The exception is the Jersey City Sports Trader internship, which requires eligibility for a New Jersey gaming license; that posting read 21 in 2024 and 18 in 2026.

How much do FanDuel interns get paid?

FanDuel's own 2023 master's-level data science posting listed $40 to $50 an hour. Community reports on levels.fyi put software engineering interns around $40 an hour and data engineering interns around $35, each with a $5,000 sign-on bonus. FanDuel has not published a range on its recent RippleMatch-hosted postings.

What does the FanDuel intern interview process look like?

A recruiter screen (Vault reports a HireVue round for interns), then a first virtual interview with the team, a second round mixing behavioral and technical or case questions, then a final culture-fit interview with a senior leader. There is no standalone coding assessment – expect probability questions framed around sports.

What skills does FanDuel look for in interns?

Across thirteen FanDuel intern job descriptions, the most repeated asks are working in a team-oriented environment (9 of 13), interest or experience in a heavily regulated gaming industry (8 of 13), quantitative problem-solving (7 of 13), and SQL plus Python (6 of 13). Written communication appears in twelve of thirteen.

FanDuel hides its own internship behind RippleMatch, and the window that matters is most likely to open in December, not September. Spend the runway building proof: a remote Externship turns "interested in sports betting tech" into a finished project a December application can point to.