10 hours ago
Edinburgh, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own CPE’s domain architecture, target technical architecture, and technical strategy.
- Own operational excellence, including hands-on resolution and mitigation of complex production incidents and corrective actions.
- Create prototypes, reference implementations, and simple code that establish technical patterns and high engineering standards.
- Influence delivery teams and Staff and Senior Staff Engineers on technical tradeoffs.
- Set engineering best practices and standards for operational excellence, security, and quality.
- Coach and mentor Senior Staff Engineers.
- Serve as part of the domain’s senior software escalation tier rather than the primary on-call rotation.
- Establish standards for where AI-assisted software development is and is not used across the SDLC.
Requirements
- Expert experience building and designing scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available systems under extreme peak loads.
- Experience influencing technical direction across engineering organizations of more than 200 people.
- Expert understanding of engineering design patterns and architectural approaches.
- Deep, current, hands-on experience with AI-assisted software development, including agentic coding, spec-driven workflows, tooling, review, testing, and verification.
- Track record of moving an engineering organization from AI experimentation to measurable improvements in software development, while accounting for security, auditability, and regulated-environment data boundaries.
- Experience making pragmatic short-term and long-term technical tradeoffs.
- Ability to build trust and shared understanding with teams and engineers who do not report to you.
- Deep experience with modern backend languages, including functional and object-oriented programming and Java.
- Demonstrated ability to improve operational excellence and engineering practices through influence and collaboration.
Benefits
- Salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working, and flexible holiday policy.
- Defined career pathways, a supportive manager, learning opportunities, and 10% of working time dedicated to learning.
- Trust-based work environment emphasizing productivity, autonomy, and ownership of time and work.
About FanDuel
FanDuel builds consumer sports wagering and gaming products in North America, including FanDuel Sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, FanDuel Casino, and horse-racing wagering, plus the FanDuel TV/TV+ media platforms. It earns revenue from consumer bets, fantasy entry fees, and gaming operations, and is available across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, it is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT).