Software Engineering Director

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Our roster has an opening with your name on it

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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.

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You'll work closely with engineers on a day-to-day basis, supporting them as they solve complex technical challenges around platform capabilities, developer tooling, and enabling services. 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.

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THE GAME PLAN

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Everyone on our team has a part to play

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• 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.
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• focused on enablement capabilities where you'll shape the strategic direction for developer tooling, and foundational capabilities that accelerate product delivery.
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• Produce and deliver a strategic, technical vision for Core Apps Enablement, identifying gaps in existing capabilities and negotiating ownership across mobile, BFF, and enabling service domains.
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• 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.
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• Define and drive the enablement roadmap for foundational services that successful engineering delivery is built upon.
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• 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.
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• Ensure the right people are in the right job through creating leadership opportunities, hiring, performance management, and leading with empathy.
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• Partner with Product Engineering leadership, platform teams, and product stakeholders to understand their needs and build balanced backlogs and roadmaps that prioritize high-impact enablement capabilities.
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• Advocate, own and drive predictability through Operational Excellence and transparency through data and KPIs - measuring both platform reliability and developer productivity metrics.
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• 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.
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• Liaise with partners and regulatory bodies to establish and follow an effective release process, particularly for mobile app releases and backend service deployments.
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• Deliver architecturally sound solutions for complex enablement challenges, balancing build vs. buy decisions and ensuring platform services are designed for multi-year horizons.
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• Communicate and drive strategic initiatives (3–5-year horizons) around mobile platform evolution, BFF architecture patterns, and enabling service capabilities.
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• Exhibit best behaviour and exemplify our company principles, fostering a culture of enablement, and collaboration.
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• Be responsible for expenditure and ensure you spend money effectively, recognizing areas of savings or waste in tooling, infrastructure, and vendor services.
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THE STATS

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What we're looking for in our next teammate

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• 10+ Years in a software role with 5+ years managing SE team(s). Ideally some experience managing managers.
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• 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.
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• Experience building strategic capabilities, developer tools, or enablement services that accelerate engineering productivity and reduce friction in the development lifecycle.
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• Experience designing and delivering technology solutions for consumer facing products in a high energy, ambiguous and scrutinized environment.
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• Previous hands-on experience developing highly available, fault tolerant, resilient applications and transactional platforms from requirements gathering to delivery and support.
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• Experience defining and implementing software delivery best practices, agile delivery methodologies and proven track-record of continuously improving delivery pace while maintaining quality.
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• Experience supporting software systems in production including on-call support with a relentless focus on improving the stability, availability and performance of those systems.
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• Delivery of technology solutions working with partner development teams via near-shoring/off-shoring or 3rd party development.
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• Experience managing managers.
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• Experience defining and executing a strategic vision for enablement capabilities.
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• Experience of delivering distributed highly scalable and available backend systems & APIs.
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What You Can Expect

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• Interesting work - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons
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• 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
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• 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.
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• Belonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together and have lots of fun doing it.
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• Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work
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• Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefits.
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ABOUT FANDUEL

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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: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.

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In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

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The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

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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).

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don\'t tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.

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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 [emailprotected] .

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The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you!

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