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Sky Betting & Gaming

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1001 - 5000 employees

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gambling • Gaming • B2C

Sky Betting & Gaming is a UK-based consumer-facing betting and online gaming operator. Now part of Flutter UK & Ireland and the wider Flutter Entertainment group, the brand is presented alongside Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars and tombola as a market-leading provider of trusted entertainment to millions of customers. The company emphasizes responsible play, customer experience and uses digital platforms (web and apps) to deliver betting and gaming services, with operational presence in Leeds and registration under Flutter Entertainment plc.

📋 Description

• Lead your team in exploring and applying new technologies and practices, cultivating a culture of innovation and continuous improvement to deliver a world-class regulated trading platform. • Collaborate closely with Product, Compliance, and other engineering leaders to develop cohesive solutions aligned with FMX strategic objectives and regulatory obligations. • Use data and metrics to guide your team's decision-making, tracking delivery velocity, reliability SLOs, and compliance posture as core team health indicators. • Champion a metrics-driven culture focused on measurable impact, from system uptime and latency to audit trail completeness and daily reporting accuracy. • Invest in the growth and success of your team, offer mentorship, support career development, and help shape the next generation of engineering leaders within FMX. • Oversee the development of scalable, reliable systems while driving modernisation of the Java codebase and new development in Go, Java and Kotlin. • Own engineering processes appropriate for a 24/7 regulated trading environment, sprint planning, on-call rotations, incident response, code review standards, and change management. • Build strong cross-functional partnerships with legal, compliance, and the wider Fanatics engineering organisation to influence technical and product direction. • Communicate complex technical concepts and regulatory requirements with clarity and confidence to stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership. • Champion the use of AI-assisted development tools across your team, setting the standard for responsible adoption that meets regulated-environment quality and security requirements. • Stay on top of industry trends in regulated trading infrastructure and prediction markets, bringing fresh ideas that elevate team performance. • Be open to occasional travel for offsites, cross-team collaboration, or regulatory engagements.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership, with a strong ability to mentor, grow talent, and inspire technical excellence. • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally with a backend focus (Java, Go, or similar). • Background in regulated financial infrastructure strongly preferred, brokerage systems, futures or derivatives exchanges, or comparable regulated environments. • Experience designing and operating production systems with high-availability requirements (24/7 uptime, low-latency, mission-critical). • Solid understanding of compliance obligations in regulated markets, including data sensitivity controls and insider trading restrictions. • Deep understanding of Agile and Scrum, with the agility to adapt in a fast-evolving 0 to 1 environment. • A history of successfully delivering complex, scalable solutions with a focus on reliability and correctness. • Excellent communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills, equally comfortable with engineers, compliance teams, and executive stakeholders. • Experience leading distributed or remote teams across multiple time zones. • Demonstrated experience using or evangelising AI development tools (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, etc.) within an engineering team. • Degree in Computer Science or similar, or equivalent experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Home office setup stipend • Professional development opportunities