Software Engineering Manager I

Company Description

At bet365, we're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of opportunities for growth, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our customers worldwide.

Job Description

An Engineering Manager, who will help to drive innovation, mentor top talent, and shape the future of our platform with cutting-edge technology.

The Sports Platform department is responsible for developing, enhancing and supporting our sports platform which is an n-tier system focused on low latency while supporting high throughput. You and your team will create amazing experiences for our traders who manage all the betting opportunities that go onto our site.

You will be responsible for building and managing a leading a team of T-shaped, full-stack engineers of varying experience levels and skillsets. You will measure quality and delivery, contribute and drive improvements, whilst ensuring that we remain skilled, engaged and empowered and that our processes and technology are efficient and fit for purpose.

The team will build new services in Golang and Google Spanner datastore, and support microservices written in C# utilizing SQL. We are moving from on-prem to GCP hosted infrastructure. We utilize Kafka to consume data from external providers. The front-end of the trader apps will migrate from WPF to React. Testing and observability will be top of mind.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.

The salary for this role is $110,000 - $160,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with leading development teams in the delivery of high quality software applications in client or service side application development.
• Passionate about working with technology and software development processes and practices.
• Experience with C#, Golang, Typescript or other server side technologies.
• Adaptability, with the ability to lead a team to ensure the best outcome for the Business.
• Experience with mobile technologies.
• Experience with performance testing.
• Knowledge of service orientated architecture.
• Exposure to multiple software development methodologies.
• Experience with or exposure to Cloud technologies such as GCP, GKE or SAAS.
• Exposure to generative artificial intelligence and large language models.

Additional Information

• Assisting in driving the provision of a capable, reactive, and motivated and delivery focused team.
• Enforcing governance of quality, rules, standards and processes to ensure solutions meet Business requirements.
• Ensuring the development process is conducted in a timely fashion.
• Planning and tracking works actively, as prioritized by the product, project and development management.
• Gaining a good understanding of the technical structure, domain and architecture of the systems that the team are responsible for.
• Identifying and mitigating risk.
• Removing blockers to delivery.
• Working through dependencies.
• Mentoring members of the team and ensuring distribution of knowledge.
• Inputting developer appraisals and other performance feedback.

bet365 provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.