Engineering Manager I, MarTech

About the Company

bet365 is one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionizing the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, the company employs over 9,000 people and serves over 100 million customers in 27 languages. bet365 specializes in In-Play betting, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. The company handles over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak, processes more than 2 million bets per hour, and manages over 6 billion HTTP requests daily. bet365 empowers employees to push boundaries, explore new ideas, and grow within a culture that celebrates creativity and innovation.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager I, you will coordinate and drive team efforts to deliver software solutions for the Offers team. This team builds and maintains real-time, event-based systems that enable the company to quickly and easily create new bonus mechanics without technical team input. You will lead a team of software developers with varying experience and skillsets, focusing on people, processes, delivery, and governance. The role involves measuring quality and delivery, contributing to improvements, and maintaining a solid technical understanding of systems. You will also lead SDLC transformation in the modern AI era, implementing agentic workflows.

The work is fast-paced, challenging, and rewarding within a hardworking and delivery-focused company ethos. bet365 hires individuals with a broad set of technical skills to tackle technology’s greatest challenges and continue breaking new ground in software innovation.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of software developers with varying experience and skillsets.
• Drive the delivery of high-quality software solutions for real-time event-based systems.
• Measure quality and delivery, contributing to and driving improvements.
• Maintain a solid technical understanding of systems and stay close to the solutions being developed.
• Lead SDLC transformation in the modern AI era, implementing agentic workflows.
• Assist in driving the provision of a capable, reactive, motivated, and delivery-focused team.
• Enforce governance around quality, rules, standards, and processes within the team.
• Be hands-on with architecture and technical solutions.
• Ensure solutions meet business needs and the development process is conducted efficiently.
• Aim to limit repeated steps in the development process.
• Identify and mitigate risks, and remove blockers to delivery.
• Analyze the impact of change.
• Mentor team members and ensure the distribution of knowledge.
• Provide input into developers' appraisals and other performance feedback.

Requirements

• Extensive commercial development experience.
• Proven track record in leading teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Experience developing low-latency, highly available, and scalable solutions.
• Experience with agentic transformation to the SDLC and driving AI efficiency initiatives.
• Experience with event-based systems.
• Server-side development experience (e.g., services, systems, messaging, middleware).
• Frontend development experience (e.g., React and TypeScript).
• Good database application programming ability.
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple streams of activity, shifting focus regularly.

Pay

The annual salary for this role is between $130,000 and $160,000.

Schedule

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