Software Engineering Senior Vice President

ABOUT FANDUEL

Fan Duel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. Fan Duel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including:
America’s #1 Sports book, Fan Duel Sports book; its leading iGaming platform, Fan Duel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, Fan Duel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.

In addition, Fan Duel Group operates Fan Duel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and Fan Duel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. Fan Duel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

Fan Duel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

THE POSITION
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We are seeking an energetic, hands‑on SVP of Software Product Engineering to lead and transform our engineering organizations focused on Sports products. This is a pivotal role, charged with modernizing software delivery through AI-assisted development and cutting-edge architecture.

You will initially focus on driving transformational uplift through GenAI tools and AI-assisted workflows across engineering teams. Ultimately, you will oversee end-to-end AWS architecture, scale, reliability, and efficiency across our consumer‑facing sports platform. You’ll create strategies and drive execution within a global organization of ~500+ engineers and engineering managers delivering high‑impact products at velocity.

Strategically you will work alongside the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to own and drive organizational outcomes including location, financial, and key technology strategies to align with overall key results and goals against our future strategic plans.

This role will partner across the business units to drive software engineering and product end-to-end delivery efficiencies and acceleration by bringing experience and best in class industry process and frameworks to reshape how development is done. Candidate best suited for this role will be product-centric with high technical skills including strong communication skills (business, financial, and customer focused) at multiple levels including executive team and the board.

In addition, the position will act a senior leader and partner to the international brands of Flutter Group to help identify key technical partnerships and opportunities to create leverage across the brands.

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Spearhead a GenAI-powered productivity transformation: integrate AI tool chains and assisted coding workflows across all engineering teams.
• Drive execution, strategy, and change management as a senior technology executive to support the CTO and organizational strategic plans
• Architect and scale Fan Duel’s sports platforms on AWS, focusing on microservices, high-availability, performance, cost optimization, and automation.
• Set and deliver engineering excellence goals around CI/CD pipelines, observability, incident response, technical debt reduction, and operational KPIs in alignment with our Platform Engineering strategies
• Recruit, develop, and lead a global high-performing engineering organization (~750+), including senior engineering leaders and cross-functional product teams.
• Drive culture of velocity and quality: mentor engineering leaders, enforce pragmatic decision-making, and encourage innovation.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Security, Operations, and Executive teams to align on roadmap, technical strategy, and business…