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# Software Engineering Director at FanDuel

- **Company:** FanDuel
- **Location:** Edinburgh Scotland, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://www.fanduel.careers/open-positions?gh_jid=8234180

## Job description

## THE POSITION

Our roster has an opening with your name on it

Much of what decides whether a fan stays with FanDuel happens either side of the bet: the sign-up that takes a minute, the deposit that clears first time on a Sunday afternoon, the withdrawal that lands when we said it would, and the protections that work quietly in the background for the people who need them.

We are looking for a Software Engineering Director to lead the teams behind that experience across FanDuel’s Customer Product Engineering (CPE) domain.

CPE builds the systems fans touch first and trust most: payments and money movement, account and onboarding, geolocation, responsible gaming and player integrity, and the promotions, rewards and loyalty, campaign orchestration, personalisation and marketing messaging that shape every fan’s day-to-day experience. When CPE works, nobody notices. When it does not, a fan cannot get in, get funded, get paid or get looked after, and quality elsewhere in the product does not make up for it.

The mission: make it quick and predictable for every fan to join, fund an account, get paid and be protected, in every jurisdiction we operate in, on the busiest day of the sporting calendar. Making every moment more, for our customers. Your work always follows our principle Everything Begins with the Customer.

That means designing for extreme, event-driven peak load, where traffic arrives in minutes, and for a heavily regulated environment in which auditability and evidence matter as much as availability. It also means depending on other people’s systems: payment providers, identity and KYC vendors, geolocation suppliers. You build so that their bad day does not become our customers’ bad day.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will lead managers and senior engineers across several teams, set technical direction alongside your Principal and Senior Staff Engineers, make the difficult calls that do not have obvious answers, and create the conditions in which good teams do the best work of their careers. You will work as closely with Product, Compliance, Risk, Finance and Customer Operations as you do with engineers, and you can explain a technical trade-off to an executive audience without diluting it.

You are candid about what is not working and you know when to look for consensus and when the decision is yours, Challenge and Commit. You wear your FanDuel hat first and do not restrict yourself to organisational boundaries, We are One Team. You are a visible part of the domain leadership team and a role model to the wider engineering community, Humble and Hungry.

## THE GAME PLAN

Everyone on our team has a part to play

- 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 rather than the uptime of individual services.
- Set the standard for availability and operational excellence in a domain where an outage stops the rest of the product working, including the KPIs, the instrumentation behind them, and the discipline to tell genuine degradation from noise.
- 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, using redundancy, graceful degradation and clear fallbacks so that a supplier’s outage does not become a customer’s.
- Treat regulation as an engineering requirement, designing for auditability, evidence, data boundaries and jurisdictional variation from the start, and building the relationship with Compliance and Legal that lets us move quickly and safely.
- Hold responsible gaming and player integrity to the same product standard as any revenue-generating feature. Fans should be protected by systems that are accurate and timely, and that stay out of the way of people playing well within their means.
- Simplify the estate you inherit. Retire duplicated capability, reduce coupling between teams and improve lead time to change, so the domain is easier to work in each quarter than it was the last.
- Set the standard for how AI is used across the software lifecycle in your teams, including where we choose not to use it, with evidence of the effect on throughput, quality and security and the judgment to tell real uplift from theatre.
- Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, Finance and Customer Operations to shape the roadmap early, so that capabilities are designed in at inception.
- Make sure the right people are in the right jobs through hiring, development, performance management and creating leadership opportunities, and lead with empathy.
- Grow the managers and senior engineers who report to you, giving them the context and the scope to make decisions themselves rather than routing them through you.
- Make sure the domain is supported properly in production, including on-call and incident response, and that corrective actions are completed rather than logged.
- Deliver architecturally sound solutions to complex problems, making considered build-versus-buy decisions and designing for scale, reliability and a multi-year horizon.
- Communicate and progress strategic initiatives on a three to five year horizon covering platform evolution, money movement architecture and the shape of the domain.
- Be accountable for your budget, spend it carefully, and recognise waste in tooling, infrastructure, vendor services and payment processing costs.
- Exemplify our company principles and support a culture of quality, candour and collaboration.

## THE STATS

What we're looking for in our next teammate

We don’t expect you necessarily to have all of these to apply but they all count.

- 10+ years in a software role, with 5+ years leading engineering teams. Experience leading other managers.
- A track record of delivering and running high-volume transactional systems where correctness, money and customer trust are all at stake, ideally in payments, financial services, identity or another regulated domain.
- Experience with highly available, fault-tolerant systems under extreme, event-driven peak load, from design through to production support.
- Experience building on third parties at scale, for example payment service providers, KYC and identity vendors or geolocation suppliers, including the operational and commercial realities of those relationships.
- Comfortable working in a regulated environment, where auditability, evidence and data boundaries shape the design.
- Experience with observability and with using data and KPIs to make engineering decisions and to hold a domain to a measurable standard of availability and performance.
- Deep experience in modern back-end languages, functional and object-oriented, including Java, and with cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), containers and orchestration.
- Hands-on understanding of AI-assisted software development, with a considered view of where it belongs in the lifecycle, where it does not, and what a regulated environment allows it to touch.
- Experience defining and implementing software delivery practices and agile methods, with evidence of improving delivery pace while maintaining quality.
- Experience supporting software systems in production, including on-call, with a sustained focus on improving their stability, availability and performance.
- Experience delivering technology solutions with partner development teams through near-shore, off-shore or third-party arrangements.
- Experience designing and delivering technology for consumer-facing products in a fast-moving, ambiguous and closely scrutinised environment.
- Experience defining and executing a strategic technical vision, and the communication skills to carry it with engineers and executives alike.
- Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

## THE CONTRACT

We treat our team right

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
- Flexible vacation allowance to let you refuel
- Hall of Fame benefit programs and platforms

## ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.

In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

## About FanDuel

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: FanDuel is America’s #1 Sportsbook and premier mobile gaming company, offering a suite of sports betting, daily fantasy, online casino, and horse racing entertainment experiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT), a publicly traded parent company
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Nigel Eccles, Lesley Eccles, Chris Stafford, Rob Jones, Tom Griffiths

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Online sports betting, daily fantasy sports, iGaming (online casino), horse racing, sports media/television
- Target customers: B2C — sports fans and gaming enthusiasts across North America
- Mission or purpose statement: To set the standard for responsible gaming while giving sports fans new ways to engage with the games they love and helping fans win every day.

## Products & Services
- **[FanDuel Sportsbook](https://www.fanduel.com/about)**: Online and mobile sports betting platform offering wagers on major sports leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, etc.), live in-play betting, and Same Game Parlay (a first-of-its-kind product in the U.S.)
- **[FanDuel Fantasy](https://www.fanduel.com/about)**: Daily fantasy sports platform where users draft teams and compete for cash prizes across a wide range of sports
- **[FanDuel Casino](https://www.fanduel.com/about)**: Online casino platform offering slots, table games, and live dealer experiences, launched in New Jersey in July 2021
- **[FanDuel Racing](https://www.fanduel.com/about)**: Horse racing betting platform (formerly TVG), offering live odds, race replays, and wagering on tracks worldwide
- **[FanDuel TV](https://www.fanduel.com/about)**: Broadly distributed television network featuring original sports programming like “Up & Adams” and “Run It Back,” alongside live horse racing coverage
- **[FanDuel Predicts](https://www.fanduel.com/about)**: A predictive betting product (in partnership with CME Group) allowing customers to bet on financial indicators, cultural moments, and more
- **[FanDuel Faceoff](https://www.fanduel.com/about)**: Peer-to-peer fantasy product (formerly FanDuel Picks) launched in select states in September 2022

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed for FanDuel directly; parent company Flutter Entertainment has a market cap of approximately $45-50 billion (as of mid-2025)
- **Key Metric**: America’s #1 Sportsbook and iGaming brand by market share; nearly 4,000 employees
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Flutter Entertainment (parent company, acquired FanDuel in July 2018); official sports betting partner of the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL; founding member of the Responsible Online Gaming Association (ROGA)
- **Growth Signals**: Explosive growth from 2013-2015 in daily fantasy; rapid expansion into sports betting post-2018 PASPA repeal; launched online casino in 2021; rebranded TVG network as FanDuel TV; expanded into Canada with offices in Calgary, Edmonton, and Toronto; continues to hire across the US, UK, and Canada

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover scale in daily fantasy**: Established brand trust and a massive user base before sports betting legalization
- **Market-leading position**: America’s #1 Sportsbook, giving it a dominant share in the most lucrative U.S. betting market
- **Integrated product ecosystem**: A single account gives users access to sportsbook, casino, fantasy, racing, and predictive betting — creating high switching costs and cross-sell opportunities
- **Flutter Entertainment backing**: Access to the resources, technology, and global expertise of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming operator
- **Official league partnerships**: Exclusive partnerships with the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL provide brand credibility and data access
- **Innovation track record**: Pioneered Same Game Parlay in the U.S.; first to market with many product features
- **Responsible gaming leadership**: Founding member of ROGA; industry-leading responsible gaming tools and customer protections

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Continuing to enter new states as sports betting and iGaming are legalized, plus building presence in Canada
- **Product innovation**: Developing new betting formats (e.g., Predicts, Faceoff) and enhancing the mobile experience
- **Media integration**: Growing FanDuel TV as a content and brand-building platform to drive customer acquisition and engagement
- **Responsible gaming**: Deepening commitment to customer protection and industry-wide responsible gaming standards
- **Technology and platform scaling**: Building a fast, secure, and rock-solid platform in one of the most regulated markets in the world

## Why Work Here
- **Culture and principles**: FanDuel operates on a set of core principles including “One Team,” “Own the Outcome,” “Assume Positive Intent,” “Challenge Then Commit,” “Stay Humble Stay Hungry,” and “Win with Integrity” [fanduel.careers](https://www.fanduel.careers/fanduel-life/)
- **Work environment**: Hybrid and remote options available depending on role and location; offices in New York City (HQ), Atlanta, Jersey City, Los Angeles, Edinburgh (Scotland), Calgary, Edmonton, and Toronto
- **Benefits**: Competitive salaries, cash bonuses based on personal and company performance, stock awards, comprehensive healthcare, mental health resources, fitness perks, family planning support; UK employees have certified Mental Health Champions in-office
- **Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)**: Seven ERGs providing community, engagement, and professional development opportunities; monthly themed happy hours and social events (intramural sports, workout classes, line dancing)
- **Learning and development**: Strong emphasis on continuous learning, leadership development, and career growth
- **Engineering culture**: Teams work on cutting-edge tech in cybersecurity, data science, AI, cloud, platform engineering, and software engineering — in a highly regulated, high-stakes environment that demands innovation and reliability
- **Mission-driven work**: Employees are directly responsible for creating experiences that millions of fans trust and enjoy, with real money on the line — making customer focus and integrity paramount

## Sources
1. [FanDuel About Page](https://www.fanduel.com/about)
2. [FanDuel Our Story](https://www.fanduel.com/about/our-story)
3. [FanDuel Careers - FanDuel Life](https://www.fanduel.careers/fanduel-life/)
4. [FanDuel Careers - Home](https://www.fanduel.careers/)
5. [FanDuel Careers - Open Positions](https://www.fanduel.careers/open-positions/)

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