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 DescriptionAs an Engineering Manager I, you will coordinate and drive team efforts to deliver software solutions.
The Offers team is responsible for building and maintaining real-time event based systems that support the Company’s desire to quickly and easily create new bonus mechanics, without input from technical teams.
You will be responsible for building and leading a team of software developers with varying experience and skillsets, focusing on people, processes, delivery and governance. You will measure quality and delivery, contribute and drive improvements, maintaining a solid technical understanding of systems and remain close to the solutions being developed. You will be leading SDLC transformation in the modern AI era to the bleeding edge implementing agentic workflows
The day to day work is interesting, challenging and fast paced amidst a hardworking and delivery focused company ethos. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology’s greatest challenges and continue to break new ground in software innovation.
This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.
Qualifications- Extensive commercial development experience.
- Proven track record in leading teams to deliver high quality solutions.
- Developing low latency, highly available and scalable solutions.
- Experience with Agentic transformation to the SDLC
- Driving AI efficiency initiatives
- Experience of event-based systems.
- Server side development such as Services, Systems, Messaging, Middleware.
- Frontend development experience, such as React and Typescript.
- Good database application programming ability.
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple streams of activity, shifting focus regularly.
- Assisting in driving the provision of a capable, reactive, motivated and delivery focused team.
- Enforcing governance around quality, rules, standards and processes within the team.
- Being hands on with architecture and technical solutions
- Ensuring the solution meets the needs of the Business.
- Ensuring the development process is conducted efficiently.
- Aiming to limit repeated steps with the development process.
- Identifying and mitigating risk.
- Removing blockers to delivery.
- Analysing impact of change.
- Mentoring members of the team and ensuring distribution of knowledge.
- Inputting into the developer’s appraisals and other performance feedback.
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