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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 POSITION

We are hiring for two Software Engineering Managers across our Account vertical within FanDuel. Our Account vertical is responsible for some of our most critical services and complex customer journeys such as user sign-ups, login and verification.
As a manager, you’ll help to own and drive the technical strategy within your product delivery team and across the Account vertical, as well as owning dedicated feature development work. You’ll also encourage, motivate and hold your team to account, with a servant leader mindset.
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 could be the position for you!

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Managing a team, working closely with senior engineers to deliver a technical vision
• Help scope and define new solutions to problems while influencing the roadmap and ensuring we deliver truly viable features and products
• Own the day-to-day managing of software development, where you are accountable to customer experience, project prioritisation, software quality and system maintenance
• Measure, own and drive predictability through Operational Excellence and transparency through data and KPIs
• Work closely with stakeholders from across FanDuel to help them understand the delivery process and collaborate with Product on a backlog of technical initiatives
• You will write tenets and clear documents around establishing best-practice processes
• Develop and grow engineers, providing a supporting environment tailored to their individual needs

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for people managers who enjoy helping and coaching those around them and who have a passion for software delivery and working with other managers to help solve problems.

• Technical background delivering software (ideally across full-stack software development – React, Java and AWS)
• Experience in defining and implementing software delivery best practices, Agile / Scrum delivery methodologies and continuous improvement
• The ability to grow, support and lead a team to success whilst demonstrating a pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Understanding of modern architectures, distributed systems and how to scale applications

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Managing a team, working closely with senior engineers to deliver a technical vision
• Help scope and define new solutions to problems while influencing the roadmap and ensuring we deliver truly viable features and products
• Own the day-to-day managing of software development, where you are accountable to customer experience, project prioritisation, software quality and system maintenance
• Measure, own and drive predictability through Operational Excellence and transparency through data and KPIs
• Work closely with stakeholders from across FanDuel to help them understand the delivery process and collaborate with Product on a backlog of technical initiatives
• You will write tenets and clear documents around establishing best-practice processes
• Develop and grow engineers, providing a supporting environment tailored to their individual need