Software Engineering Manager (Remote) in Edinburgh

Our roster has an opening with your name on it. Much of what decides whether a fan stays with FanDuel happens either side of the bet: the sign-up that takes a minute, the deposit that clears first time on a Sunday afternoon, the withdrawal that lands when we said it would, and the protections that work quietly in the background for the people who need them.

We are looking for a Software Engineering Director to lead the teams behind that experience across FanDuel’s Customer Product Engineering (CPE) domain. CPE builds the systems fans touch first and trust most: payments and money movement, account and onboarding, geolocation, responsible gaming and player integrity, and the promotions, rewards and loyalty, campaign orchestration, personalisation and marketing messaging that shape every fan’s day-to-day experience. When it does not, a fan cannot get in, get funded, get paid or get looked after, and quality elsewhere in the product does not make up for it.

The mission: make it quick and predictable for every fan to join, fund an account, get paid and be protected, in every jurisdiction we operate in, on the busiest day of the sporting calendar. It also means depending on other people’s systems: payment providers, identity and KYC vendors, geolocation suppliers. You will work as closely with Product, Compliance, Risk, Finance and Customer Operations as you do with engineers, and you can explain a technical trade-off to an executive audience without diluting it.

You are a visible part of the domain leadership team and a role model to the wider engineering community, Humble and Hungry.

THE GAME PLAN

• Lead multiple engineering teams within CPE, setting a clear technical vision for each area and holding delivery to it.
• Reduce the blast radius of third-party failure across payment providers, identity and KYC vendors and geolocation suppliers, using redundancy, graceful degradation and clear fallbacks so that a supplier’s outage does not become a customer’s.
• Treat regulation as an engineering requirement, designing for auditability, evidence, data boundaries and jurisdictional variation from the start, and building the relationship with Compliance and Legal that lets us move quickly and safely.
• Hold responsible gaming and player integrity to the same product standard as any revenue-generating feature.
• Retire duplicated capability, reduce coupling between teams and improve lead time to change, so the domain is easier to work in each quarter than it was the last.
• Set the standard for how AI is used across the software lifecycle in your teams, including where we choose not to use it, with evidence of the effect on throughput, quality and security and the judgment to tell real uplift from theatre.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, Finance and Customer Operations to shape the roadmap early, so that capabilities are designed in at inception.
• Make sure the right people are in the right jobs through hiring, development, performance management and creating leadership opportunities, and lead with empathy.
• Be accountable for your budget, spend it carefully, and recognise waste in tooling, infrastructure, vendor services and payment processing costs.
• Exemplify our company principles and support a culture of quality, candour and collaboration.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years in a software role, with 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• A track record of delivering and running high-volume transactional systems where correctness, money and customer trust are all at stake, ideally in payments, financial services, identity or another regulated domain.
• Experience building on third parties at scale, for example payment service providers, KYC and identity vendors or geolocation suppliers, including the operational and commercial realities of those relationships.
• Comfortable working in a regulated environment, where auditability, evidence and data boundaries shape the design.
• Experience with observability and with using data and KPIs to make engineering decisions and to hold a domain to a measurable standard of availability and performance.
• Deep experience in modern back-end languages, functional and object-oriented, including Java, and with cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), containers and orchestration.
• Hands-on understanding of AI-assisted software development, with a considered view of where it belongs in the lifecycle, where it does not, and what a regulated environment allows it to touch.
• Experience defining and implementing software delivery practices and agile methods, with evidence of improving delivery pace while maintaining quality.
• Experience supporting software systems in production, including on-call, with a sustained focus on improving their stability, availability and performance.
• Experience delivering technology solutions with partner development teams through near-shore, off-shore or third-party arrangements.
• Experience defining and executing a strategic technical vision, and the communication skills to carry it with engineers and executives alike.
• Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

THE CONTRACT

We treat our team right. Competitive compensation is just the beginning. An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth. Opportunities to build really cool products that fans love. Mentorship and professional development resources to help you refine your game. Flexible vacation allowance to let you refuel. Hall of Fame benefit programs and platforms.

ABOUT FANDUEL

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).