Director of Technology - Software Engineering in Edinburgh

As a Software Engineering Director for our Sportsbook Core Apps Enablement group, you'll be at the forefront of empowering our delivery teams to provide exceptional customer experiences at speed. You'll manage and mentor multiple engineering teams responsible for building the foundational capabilities, tools, and services that enable our mobile and front-end applications to thrive. Your mission is to ensure our application platforms and backend-for-frontend (BFF) services have the right capabilities, infrastructure, and developer experience to support rapid, high-quality feature delivery.

You'll help find opportunities focused on providing the best employee experience while balancing delivery of capabilities that work at scale. You'll own your software, helping define solutions to problems while mitigating long-term risks. You'll raise and help mitigate blockers while providing status updates to leadership.

THE GAME PLAN

• Manage multiple software development teams with focus on Product Engineering teams as your customers to ensure they have the tools, services, and capabilities to move fast without friction.
• Work with technical experts across mobile (iOS, Android, Web), BFF services, and with our platform engineering teams to identify opportunities for reusable technology that secure our competitive advantage.
• Proactively identify technology gaps and opportunities in the enablement space, mitigate risks created through technical complexity, and ensure BFF services are designed for scale, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Ensure the right people are in the right job through creating leadership opportunities, hiring, performance management, and leading with empathy.
• Advocate, own and drive predictability through Operational Excellence and transparency through data and KPIs - measuring both platform reliability and developer productivity metrics.
• Ensure effective operational support for all enablement services in conjunction with IT Operations support organization, treating platform downtime with the same urgency as customer-facing issues.
• Liaise with partners and regulatory bodies to establish and follow an effective release process, particularly for mobile app releases and backend service deployments.
• Exhibit best behaviour and exemplify our company principles, fostering a culture of enablement, and collaboration.
• Be responsible for expenditure and ensure you spend money effectively, recognizing areas of savings or waste in tooling, infrastructure, and vendor services.

Qualifications:

• 10+ Years in a software role with 5+ years managing SE team(s).
• Strong experience with mobile application platforms (iOS, Android, Web) and backend-for-frontend (BFF) architectures, with a deep understanding of mobile development challenges and what Engineering teams need to be successful.
• Experience building strategic capabilities, developer tools, or enablement services that accelerate engineering productivity and reduce friction in the development lifecycle.
• Experience defining and implementing software delivery best practices, agile delivery methodologies and proven track-record of continuously improving delivery pace while maintaining quality.
• Experience supporting software systems in production including on-call support with a relentless focus on improving the stability, availability and performance of those systems.
• Delivery of technology solutions working with partner development teams via near-shoring/off-shoring or 3rd party development.

A sense of achievement - Our teams own their own software and when that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created.

Personal development - clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, loads of learning opportunities and even 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.

Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefits.

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. 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).

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please email Benefits@fanduel.