Engineering Manager

About Us

Our mission is to dominate the betting and gaming industry on a global scale and we need the very best Tech talent to help us achieve this.

We recently migrated all of our customers onto our very own proprietary platform - so it's an exciting time to join us. With the help of our new platform, we're able to pioneer new products and drive more advanced, creative technologies. The result? Unrivalled experiences for millions of customers worldwide.

Betfred's Technology department is driven by innovation, and you'll be at the heart of unlocking our new platform's potential. So, if you want to help shape the future of betting and gaming, then it's to time to join us.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Retail Technology Team. The team focuses on the

development and enhancement of our retail platform supporting our extensive network of shops and self-

service betting terminals. The team will be small multi-skilled and highly focused employing multiple

technology stacks and providing a business capability function.

Expertise in coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers, Tech Leads, and QAs, fostering a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, accountability, and technical excellence.

Experience of unblocking teams, facilitating effective collaboration, and enabling engineers and QAs to perform at their best.

Experience of guiding career development, supporting growth, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement across one or more teams.

Expertise in growing individuals to meet their potential and fulfil their capabilities.

Expertise in having clear and honest conversations with people around their skills, aspirations and performance, being accountable for observing, acting on, and following up on any actions to grow or correct.

Experience of building an environment where technical and personal experimentation can take place within clear boundaries and expectations.

Experience of fostering sustainable ways of working, balancing delivery pressure with long-term team health and retention.

Experience of driving cross-team communication and alignment on shared goals, approaches, standards, and quality expectations across the product domain.

Experience of managing stakeholder relationships, using delivery insights, risks, and data (including quality and reliability signals) to ensure priorities and challenges are understood and supported.

Accountability for ensuring quality is built into all delivery processes, with every team owning quality outcomes through strong collaboration between engineers and QAs, rather than relying on testing as a final gate.

Expertise in providing high-level technical direction and strategic guidance for a team or multiple teams, ensuring alignment with business goals and the target architecture.

Expertise in promoting best practices in system design, architecture patterns, and technical standards, with quality, reliability, and testability considered by default.

Expertise in reviewing technical plans and guiding design decisions, partnering with Tech Leads to enable effective and sustainable implementation.

Expertise in ensuring teams adopt strong engineering practices, including test automation, CI/CD, observability, performance monitoring, and security and compliance standards.

Expertise in leveraging observability signals (metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and SLOs) to understand system health, identify quality risks early, and inform prioritisation.

Expertise in understanding data storage, caching, database design, and service interfaces, providing high-level guidance rather than hands‑on implementation.

Experience of using performance, scaling, reliability, and availability metrics to inform technical trade‑offs, delivery priorities, and investment decisions.

Experience in cloud cost management and optimisation across public or private cloud platforms.

Expertise in balancing long term sustainability whist delivering for today

Experience of ensuring QA is embedded into ways of working, including planning, design, development, release, and post‑production learning, so quality is…