Engineering Manager - Pricing

About Us

At FDJ UNITED, we don't just follow the game, we reinvent it.

FDJ UNITED is one of Europe’s leading betting and gaming operators, with a vast portfolio of iconic brands and a reputation for technological excellence. With more than 5,000 employees and a presence in around fifteen regulated markets, the Group offers a diversified, responsible range of games, both under exclusive rights and open to competition. We set new standards, proving that entertainment and safety can go hand in hand. Here, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to delivering the best and safest entertaining experiences for our customers every day.

We’re looking for bold people who are eager to succeed and ready to level-up the game. If you thrive on innovation, embrace challenges, and want to make a real impact at all levels, FDJ UNITED is your playing field.

Join us in shaping the future of gaming. Are you ready to LEVEL-UP THE GAME?

At FDJ UNITED, the Pricing Engineering Team is focused on building, scaling and maintaining quantitative pricing algorithms that feed directly into our Sportsbook customers. We are building pricing feeds for multiple sports across a variety of products, with a focus on accuracy, latency and resilience.

As an Engineering Manager within our team, you will lead developers to deliver high-quality software, whilst fostering a culture of technical excellence and accountability. Your focus will be on people, technical leadership, and maintaining the health of our production systems.

What you will be doing:

• Taking accountability for multiple engineering-driven workstreams in the Pricing domain; for example, you might be leading the delivery of services for a brand-new Basketball pricing feed, guiding the analysis of latency bottlenecks in our Football BetBuilder, or overseeing the aggregation of complex Kafka data feeds into a unified framework for our pricing models to ingest

• Managing a talented group of Java and Python developers, and ensuring they feel supported in their professional development

• Setting product-driven goals for your team, ensuring they remain on track to achieve them, and communicating with other managers and technical leads to resolve blockers

• Refining Pricing Engineering ways of working by leading on strategic initiatives, including developer performance testing and quality assurance

• Learning from and aligning with Senior team members to increase your Pricing domain knowledge and build strong relationships with various other engineering teams

Essential Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including 2+ years in a leadership or management role focused on people, delivery, and operational excellence

• A strong technical foundation with hands-on experience in modern development practices, tools, and a range of programming languages and technology stacks; the Pricing Engineering team code in Java, with underlying statistical pricing models written in Python

• Exposure to some of the following technologies: Java Spring Boot, Python, Kafka, AWS, Grafana, Postgres, Couchbase, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm

• A track record of delivering complex low-latency, event-driven microservices from prototype to production

• A solid understanding of software design principles and design patterns, including experience with automated testing (including integration and performance testing)

• Experience as an approachable and considerate people manager, able to champion developer's successes and mentor them through challenges

• Demonstrable success building relationships with a range of stakeholders and delivering on their needs.

Desirable Requirements:

• Specific experience in the development of systems focussed on sporting data and/or delivery of sports pricing feeds

• Experience with Agile development practices, e.g. Scrum, Kanban

• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools

Our Way Of Working

Our world is hybrid.

A career is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. One of the perks of joining us is that we value you as a person first. Our hybrid world allows you to focus on your goals and responsibilities and lets you self-organise to improve your deliveries and get the work done in your own way.

Application Process

We believe talent knows no boundaries. Our hiring process focuses solely on your skills, experience, and potential to contribute to our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and evaluate each candidate based on merit, regardless of personal characteristics as the age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity or disability.