Software Engineering Senior Manager

Fan Duel Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Fan Duel Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Our Permits & Eligibility team is responsible for authorizing every deposit, withdrawal, and bet that is placed  Tier 1 System requires the highest level of availability as any impact to our system can affect the rest of the company. You will be leading the team responsible for building and maintaining our Permits & Eligibility platform that supports the foundational products of Fan Duel, including Fan Duel Sports book, Fan Duel Casino, Fan Duel Racing, and Fan Duel Daily Fantasy Sports.

We use AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, SQL, Java, and other technologies.

As a Software Engineering Senior Manager at Fan Duel, you can develop your skills and experience as the manager of an Agile software engineering team. You will directly manage a team of engineers and be accountable for customer experience, project prioritization, software quality, and system maintenance. You set the example for our values and help engineers grow by encouraging them to contribute to cross‑team technical discussions, supporting their ideas, and empowering them to make decisions.

Most of all, you are accountable for the experience, management, and development of the engineers that report to you.

• Manage, identify, and provide opportunities for software engineers to progress in their careers.
• Work with senior and staff engineers to deliver a technical vision focused on customer satisfaction and security.
• Proactively identify technology gaps and opportunities, mitigate risks created through technical and regulatory complexity.
• Collaborate with your product partner to build, prioritize, and deliver your teams’ roadmap, communicating blockers and progress throughout the project lifecycle.
• Measure, own, and drive predictability through operational excellence and transparency with data and KPIs.
• Own your software: build it and run it, providing appropriate support for users.
• Help scope and define new solutions, influencing the roadmap and ensuring we deliver truly viable features and products.
• Look after the health and wellbeing of your team.

• A strong technology background delivering software as an individual contributor or manager.
• Understanding of various Agile flavors and which situations are most appropriate to use them.
• Good communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Demonstrated abilities in driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Understanding of modern architectures, design patterns, and platform nuances.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts simply and successfully, to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience writing distributed, highly scalable, and highly available backend systems and APIs.
• Good citizenship, stakeholder, and team management.
• Will exemplify our company behaviors.
• Experience in hiring, building, and developing Agile engineering teams.

• Interesting work – working in a fast‑paced and ever‑changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden horizons.
• A sense of achievement – our teams own their software and when new features ship to users and positive feedback rolls in, you can feel proud of what you and your team have created.
• Personal development – clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, many learning opportunities, and 10% of your time dedicated to learning.
• Belonging – everyone at Fan Duel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together, and have lots of fun doing it.
• Trust – a trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work.
• Great financial package – including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share‑save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy, and many other benefits.

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