Software Engineering Director

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!

ABOUT FANDUEL GROUP

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans every day. That’s no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging, we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.

THE ROSTER

At FanDuel, we give fans a new and innovative way to interact with their favorite games, sports and teams. We’re dedicated to building a winning team and we pride ourselves on being able to make every moment mean more, especially when it comes to your career. So, what does “winning” look like at FanDuel? It’s recognition for your hard-earned results, a culture that brings out your best work—and a roster full of talented coworkers. Make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From creatives professionals to cutting edge technology innovators, FanDuel offers a wide range of career opportunities, best in class benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. At FanDuel, our principle of “We Are One Team” runs through all our offices across the globe, and you can expect to be a part of an exciting company with many opportunities to grow and be successful.

THE POSITION

Our roster has an opening with your name on it

FanDuel Group is looking for an experienced and passionate Director of Software Engineering to join us in leading our technical teams. As Director, you will develop leaders of teams, helping them enable their team’s goals. You are comfortable talking technology with Engineers along with working with external Stakeholders to build and prioritize roadmaps, passionate about people and helping them achieve their goals, and you’re focused on Quality, building high availability, low-latency scalable software solutions and embedded devices.

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

As a Software Engineering Director for the Sportsbook Channels organisation, you’ll be working closely with your Product and Technology partners to prioritise, create and own roadmaps for your Engineering teams to work from. You’ll be working with your technology teams across different locations and time zones in order to create a vision for your area of responsibility.

You’ll promote a culture of openness and clear feedback. You’ll enable your teams to deliver high quality, scalable software and emphasize a focus on Operational Excellence. Working closely with other Directors, you’ll help solve cross-vertical problems by designing and developing capabilities that fulfil overlapping needs.

• Build, manage and support geographically dispersed diverse teams of software engineers, quality analysts and engineering managers
• Define and deliver area strategy/vision for 1+ years
• Develop, with other Directors, cross domain and sub-domain strategies to reduce bottlenecks and inefficiencies while promoting collaboration
• Prepare and manage the engineering area budget
• Develop and grow talent through effective mentoring, succession planning, and retention strategies for key talent in a fast growth, economic environment.
• Uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion, innovation
• Produce and deliver a strategic, technical vision while identifying gaps in ownership and negotiating who’ll own them going forward
• Proactively identify technology gaps and opportunities while mitigating risks created through complexity (technical and regulatory)
• Ensure the right people are in the right job by creating leadership opportunities, hiring, performance management, and caring about your team
• Partner with commercial and product stakeholders to build and balance backlogs as well as roadmaps for our products
• Advocate, own and drive predictability through Operational Excellence and transparency through data and KPIs
• Establishing baseline measures for quality, performance, scale and operational efficacy
• Responsible for ensuring effective operational support in conjunction with all partners integrated with our IT Operations support organisation and customer support
• Liaising with partners and regulatory bodies to establish and follow an effective release process
• Ability to delivery architecturally sound solutions in the absence of a highly experienced individual contributor
• Communicating and driving strategic initiatives (minimum 3 years of experience)
• Responsible for recruitment - defining interview process, job specs and owning candidate experience

THE STATS

What we’re looking for in our next teammate

• Experience designing and delivering technology solutions for consumer facing products in a high energy, ambiguous environment
• Previous hands-on experience delivering highly available, fault tolerant, resilient applications from requirements gathering to delivery and support
• Experience defining and implementing software delivery best practices, agile delivery methodologies, and proven track-record of continuously improving delivery pace while maintaining quality
• Experience supporting software systems in production including on-call support with a relentless focus on improving the stability, availability and performance of those systems
• Experience managing managers
• Experience defining and executing a strategic vision

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right
 
From our many opportunities for professional development to our generous insurance and paid leave policies, we’re committed to making sure our employees get as much out of FanDuel as we ask them to give. Competitive compensation is just the beginning. As part of our team, you can expect:

• 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
• Be well, save well and live well - with FanDuel Total Rewards your benefits are one highlight reel after another

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.

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!