Software Engineering Director

About the role

We are looking for a Software Engineering Director to lead the teams behind FanDuel’s Customer Product Engineering (CPE) domain. You will lead managers and senior engineers to build and maintain critical systems including payments, account onboarding, and player integrity, ensuring high availability and performance in a heavily regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams within CPE, setting a clear technical vision for each area and holding delivery to it.
• Own the customer outcomes your teams are accountable for, measured where the fan feels them: registration and verification completion, time to first bet, deposit and withdrawal success rates, payout speed, geolocation pass rates, and the availability of whole journeys.
• Set the standard for availability and operational excellence in a domain where an outage stops the rest of the product working.
• Prepare for event-driven peak load so that the biggest days in the sporting calendar are rehearsed, with capacity, failover and degradation behaviour proven in advance.
• Reduce the blast radius of third-party failure across payment providers, identity and KYC vendors and geolocation suppliers.
• Treat regulation as an engineering requirement, designing for auditability, evidence, data boundaries and jurisdictional variation from the start.
• Hold responsible gaming and player integrity to the same product standard as any revenue-generating feature.
• Simplify the estate you inherit, retire duplicated capability, reduce coupling between teams and improve lead time to change.

Required skills

• Engineering leadership
• High-volume transactional systems
• Fault-tolerant systems
• Payments
• Regulated environment
• Observability
• Java
• AWS
• Containers
• Orchestration
• Agile methods

Nice to have

• AI-assisted software development

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Flexible vacation allowance
• Mentorship and professional development resources

About the Company

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, consisting of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including Sportsbook, Casino, Racing, and daily fantasy sports. The company is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator.