About this role

Our roster has an opening with your name on it. The fastest Sportsbook in the industry doesn't happen by accident. We're looking for a Software Engineering Director to lead the teams behind the performance, reliability and architecture that power every customer experience across FanDuel Sportsbook. This is a role for someone who loves solving hard engineering problems at scale. You'll lead multiple engineering teams responsible for app performance and stability, observability, and the modular architecture that enables hundreds of engineers across multiple geographies to build and ship quickly, safely and with confidence.

Your mission is simple: make every Sportsbook experience faster, more reliable and easier to evolve. Making every moment for our customers… more. You'll work across iOS, Android, Web, React Native and BFF services, partnering with engineers, product leaders and senior stakeholders to define technical direction, remove delivery friction and tackle the problems that don't have obvious answers. This is a hands-on leadership role.

You'll coach exceptional engineers, shape engineering strategy, make difficult technical decisions, and create the environment where great teams can do the best work of their careers. If you're excited by leading at scale, building platforms that enable others to move faster, and raising the engineering bar across an entire organisation, we'd love to talk. THE GAME PLAN Everyone on our team has a part to play Lead multiple engineering teams across two strategic missions, Performance & Observability and Modularisation & Operational Efficiency, setting a clear technical vision for each and holding delivery to it.

Own the performance of the Sportsbook app end to end, covering app launch, crash rate, page load, tab switching, responsiveness and frame rate, driving measurable improvement against customer-facing targets on both iOS and Android, with an intensified focus on Android. Set the strategy for data observability, ensuring the organisation has trustworthy, single-source-of-truth instrumentation (for example consolidated Datadog RUM, error and crash tracking) to detect performance issues before customers feel them and to act on them fast.

Drive foundational architecture improvements, including the React Native New Architecture migration and high-performance UI components (Formation), delivered safely and gradually without disruptive rebuilds. Lead the modularisation of the Sportsbook codebase, restructuring a monolithic React Native app into a well-bounded, modular NX monorepo that gives teams clear ownership and lets change land safely for all front-end teams across the Sportsbook organisation, spread over multiple geographies.

Champion preventative tooling and regression detection so that performance is validated on every release and regressions are caught before they reach customers. Establish long-term performance visibility through custom metrics pipelines, session-level responsiveness metrics and consistent org-wide tracking capability, distinguishing genuine degradation from noise and demonstrating sustained improvement. Reduce operational effort, run-cost and process friction, prioritising high-confidence improvements with measurable delivery or efficiency gains.

Partner with Product Engineering leadership and platform teams to align the Core Apps roadmap with product priorities, running the dependency intake and early-engagement model so capabilities are shaped at inception rather than bolted on late. Advocate, own and drive predictability through Operational Excellence and transparency through data and KPIs, measuring both customer-facing performance and internal delivery and efficiency metrics.

Ensure the right people are in the right job through hiring, performance management, creating leadership opportunities, and leading with empathy. Ensure effective operational support and on-call for the customer experience your teams own, treating performance and stability incidents with the same urgency as any customer-facing issue. Deliver architecturally sound solutions for complex challenges, balancing build-vs-buy decisions and designing for scale,

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