Software Engineering Senior Manager

THE POSITION 

Our roster has an opening with your name on it 

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 impact 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 like FanDuel Sportsbook, FanDuel Casino, FanDuel Racing, and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Sports. We use AWS, K8s, Terraform, SQL Technologies & Java amongst other languages and 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 the customer experience, project prioritization, software quality, and system maintenance of the services you own. 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. 

If you’re looking to exercise and develop your existing core leadership skills both from a technical and people management point of view, then this is the position for you! 

THE GAME PLAN 
Everyone on our team has a part to play 

• Manage, identify, and provide opportunities for Software Engineers. Help them progress in their careers 

• Work with Senior & Staff Engineers to deliver a technical vision with an eye on for Customer satisfaction and security. 

• Proactively identify technology gaps and opportunities, mitigate risks created through complexity (technical and regulatory). 

• Work with your Product partner to build, prioritize & deliver your teams’ roadmap, communicating blockers and progress throughout the project lifecycle. 

• Measure, own and drive predictability through Operational Excellence and transparency through data and KPIs. 

• Own your software. You build it and you run it. Help guide your team to deliver whilst providing appropriate support for our users. 

• Help scope and define new solutions to problems while influencing the roadmap and ensuring we delivery truly viable features and Products. 

• Look after the health & wellbeing of your team. 

  

THE STATS 

What we’re looking for in our next teammate  

• 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 driving operational excellence and best practices. 

• A strong technology background delivering software as an individual contributor or manager. 

• Understanding of modern architectures, design patterns, and platform nuances. 

• Able to communicate technical concepts simply and successfully, to both technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Experience of writing distributed highly scalable and available backend systems & APIs. 

• Good citizenship, stakeholder, and team management. 
• You’ll 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 too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons
• 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.
• 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 along with a number of 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 advance-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!