Software Engineering Senior Manager

FanDuel Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Software Engineering Senior Manager FanDuel Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom THE POSITION Our Permits & Eligibility team is responsible for authorizing every deposit, withdrawal, and bet that is placed at FanDuel. Our 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 FanDuel, including FanDuel Sportsbook, FanDuel Casino, FanDuel Racing, and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Sports. We use AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, SQL, Java, and other technologies. As a Software Engineering Senior Manager at FanDuel, 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. THE GAME PLAN 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. THE STATS 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. What You Can Expect 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 FanDuel 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. 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: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advanced-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product. 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. 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. 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 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. 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.com. 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 Seniority level Mid‑Senior level Employment type Full‑time Job function Information Technology and Engineering Industries Gambling, Facilities and Casinos, Spectator Sports Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at FanDuel by 2x. Get notified about new Senior Software Engineering Manager jobs in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. #J-18808-Ljbffr