Entain

Principal Engineer

Entain
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2 days ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own complex technical initiatives and set engineering standards across teams.
  • Provide technical direction for systems, infrastructure, architecture, and complex multi-team projects.
  • Lead AI-native development practices, including AI agents, automation, evaluation, and responsible AI governance.
  • Lead design reviews, make architectural decisions, manage architectural debt, and ensure cross-team alignment.
  • Identify and address technical, operational, security, and AI-related risks.
  • Own delivery predictability, quality, productivity, execution metrics, and cross-team delivery plans.
  • Translate business needs into technical and non-functional requirements and balance scope, speed, and quality with stakeholders.
  • Drive reusable platforms, tools, engineering standards, and continuous improvements to engineering practices.
  • Conduct workshops, share technical expertise, mentor engineers, and develop technical leaders.
  • Participate in technical interviews and support Engineering Managers with team performance development.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership across complex, multi-team initiatives.
  • Experience designing scalable, modular, loosely coupled microservices and SOA architectures.
  • Experience building and integrating APIs and web services.
  • Experience leading end-to-end software delivery through iterative and structured development practices.
  • Experience managing cross-team projects and programmes, including resources, timelines, and delivery.
  • Experience aligning technology investments with business goals, including AI strategy, responsible AI adoption, governance, and risk management.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, model routing, evaluation, and observability.
  • Experience implementing automated testing and deployment pipelines, including AI evaluation gates.
  • Experience designing and managing scalable, cost-effective solutions on AWS or GCP.
  • Experience managing security risks, data protection, access controls, and AI-specific security threats.
  • Experience driving technology transformation and AI adoption across teams.
  • Strong requirements gathering, algorithmic thinking, complexity analysis, stakeholder management, collaboration, mentoring, strategic direction, and ownership skills.
  • Experience in the betting and gaming industry is desirable.

Benefits

  • Safe home pickup and home drop transportation.
  • Regular bonus and pension benefits.
  • 24 days of annual leave plus additional wellbeing and development leave.
  • Life assurance and income protection.
  • Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
  • Monthly communication allowance and support for eligible crèche expenses.
  • Reasonable adjustments and accommodations are available throughout recruitment.
  • Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace with support for diversity and accessibility.
Entain

About Entain

10,000+ employees

Entain is a London-headquartered, LSE-listed FTSE 100 sports betting and gaming group. It operates online sportsbooks, casino, poker and bingo, and runs retail betting shops, under brands including Ladbrokes, Coral, bwin, and a U.S. joint venture, BetMGM, with MGM Resorts. Revenue comes from consumer wagering across regulated markets, supported by proprietary technology platforms.

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