Software Engineering Director

<p><strong>THE POSITION</strong></p> <p>Our roster has an opening with your name on it</p> <p>As a Software Engineering Director for our Sportsbook Core Apps Enablement group, you&#39;ll be at the forefront of empowering our delivery teams to provide exceptional customer experiences at speed. You&#39;ll manage and mentor multiple engineering teams responsible for building the foundational capabilities, tools, and services that enable our mobile and front-end applications to thrive. Your mission is to ensure our application platforms and backend-for-frontend (BFF) services have the right capabilities, infrastructure, and developer experience to support rapid, high-quality feature delivery.</p> <p>You&#39;ll work closely with engineers on a day-to-day basis, supporting them as they solve complex technical challenges around platform capabilities, developer tooling, and enabling services. You&#39;ll help find opportunities focused on providing the best employee experience while balancing delivery of capabilities that work at scale. You&#39;ll own your software, helping define solutions to problems while mitigating long-term risks. You&#39;ll raise and help mitigate blockers while providing status updates to leadership.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>THE GAME PLAN</strong></p> <p>Everyone on our team has a part to play</p> <ul> <li>Manage multiple software development teams with focus on Product Engineering teams as your customers to ensure they have the tools, services, and capabilities to move fast without friction.</li> <li>focused on enablement capabilities where you&#39;ll shape the strategic direction for developer tooling, and foundational capabilities that accelerate product delivery.</li> <li>Produce and deliver a strategic, technical vision for Core Apps Enablement, identifying gaps in existing capabilities and negotiating ownership across mobile, BFF, and enabling service domains.</li> <li>Work with technical experts across mobile (iOS, Android, Web), BFF services, and with our platform engineering teams to identify opportunities for reusable technology that secure our competitive advantage.</li> <li>Define and drive the enablement roadmap for foundational services that successful engineering delivery is built upon.</li> <li>Proactively identify technology gaps and opportunities in the enablement space, mitigate risks created through technical complexity, and ensure BFF services are designed for scale, reliability, and developer productivity.</li> <li>Ensure the right people are in the right job through creating leadership opportunities, hiring, performance management, and leading with empathy.</li> <li>Partner with Product Engineering leadership, platform teams, and product stakeholders to understand their needs and build balanced backlogs and roadmaps that prioritize high-impact enablement capabilities.</li> <li>Advocate, own and drive predictability through Operational Excellence and transparency through data and KPIs - measuring both platform reliability and developer productivity metrics.</li> <li>Ensure effective operational support for all enablement services in conjunction with IT Operations support organization, treating platform downtime with the same urgency as customer-facing issues.</li> <li>Liaise with partners and regulatory bodies to establish and follow an effective release process, particularly for mobile app releases and backend service deployments.</li> <li>Deliver architecturally sound solutions for complex enablement challenges, balancing build vs. buy decisions and ensuring platform services are designed for multi-year horizons.</li> <li>Communicate and drive strategic initiatives (3–5-year horizons) around mobile platform evolution, BFF architecture patterns, and enabling service capabilities.</li> <li>Exhibit best behaviour and exemplify our company principles, fostering a culture of enablement, and collaboration.</li> <li>Be responsible for expenditure and ensure you spend money effectively, recognizing areas of savings or waste in tooling, infrastructure, and vendor services.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>THE STATS</strong></p> <p>What we&#39;re looking for in our next teammate</p> <ul> <li>10+ Years in a software role with 5+ years managing SE team(s). Ideally some experience managing managers.</li> <li>Strong experience with mobile application platforms (iOS, Android, Web) and backend-for-frontend (BFF) architectures, with a deep understanding of mobile development challenges and what Engineering teams need to be successful.</li> <li>Experience building strategic capabilities, developer tools, or enablement services that accelerate engineering productivity and reduce friction in the development lifecycle.</li> <li>Experience designing and delivering technology solutions for consumer facing products in a high energy, ambiguous and scrutinized environment.</li> <li>Previous hands-on experience developing highly available, fault tolerant, resilient applications and transactional platforms from requirements gathering to delivery and support.</li> <li>Experience defining and implementing software delivery best practices, agile delivery methodologies and proven track-record of continuously improving delivery pace while maintaining quality.</li> <li>Experience supporting software systems in production including on-call support with a relentless focus on improving the stability, availability and performance of those systems.</li> <li>Delivery of technology solutions working with partner development teams via near-shoring/off-shoring or 3rd party development.</li> <li>Experience managing managers.</li> <li>Experience defining and executing a strategic vision for enablement capabilities.</li> <li>Experience of delivering distributed highly scalable and available backend systems &amp; APIs.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What You Can Expect</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Interesting work</strong> - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new pr…