Director of Engineering - iCasino (FBG)
About The Position
As Director of Engineering for iCasino Experiences at Fanatics Betting and Gaming, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for building the technology that customers interact with in one of the fastest-growing online casinos in the U.S. Your teams will design, build, and operate the software behind the casino experience across multiple customer-facing mobile applications, supported end-to-end by content management systems and personalization that power every surface. You will lead an organization of approximately 20 full-time engineers spanning the U.S. and the U.K. This organization has developed a product that industry analysts rank among the best in the market for user experience, with a strong reliability record. Your mandate is to continue improving this performance and close the competitive gap with the largest operators in the industry. This role requires a blend of strategic and operational leadership. You will set the delivery direction and quality standards for your engineering managers, shape the technical roadmap in close collaboration with Product, Design, and TPM, and represent iCasino in cross-company programs related to architecture, delivery, and people. A customer-obsessed mindset is crucial, translating this into an organization that ships quickly and evolves continuously.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams through managers, ideally across multiple geographies and time zones
- Proven ownership of consumer-facing product experiences at scale — you have led organizations building mobile products where speed, polish, and reliability are the differentiators
- Strong delivery leadership, with a track record of running predictable execution across multiple teams, managing risk proactively, and holding a high quality bar without sacrificing velocity
- Demonstrated ability to build and scale engineering organizations — hiring and developing engineering teams, designing team structures aligned to business needs, and making hard performance calls with clarity and fairness
- Deep operational rigor — experience owning production reliability for customer-facing systems, including observability, on-call structures, incident management, and post-incident improvement
- Strong technical judgment across modern client and backend architectures — able to guide architectural decisions, evaluate platform bets, and resolve cross-team technical risks without being in the code every day
- Comfort leading distributed teams across time zones
Nice To Haves
- Experience in online gaming or other highly regulated industries, including familiarity with certification and compliance processes
- Experience leading teams building high-end mobile applications, and with content management or personalization systems
- Track record of driving cross-organization initiatives — planning process redesigns, platform migrations, or automation programs adopted beyond your own teams
- Background in startups or high-growth environments where products went from zero to market-leading
Responsibilities
- Lead a high-performing engineering organization across the U.S. and the U.K.
- Own delivery across the domain — set the operating rhythm, hold teams to commitments, proactively surface and resolve cross-team delivery risks, and keep capacity allocation transparent to Product and business stakeholders
- Own the engineering quality and reliability bar for all customer-facing casino applications, including production readiness standards, observability, test automation strategy, and incident response across the domain
- Partner with Product, Design, and TPM leadership to shape the roadmap, drive iterative delivery with intentionally scoped V1s, and translate company-level experience priorities into the domain's execution plan
- Hire, develop, and coach engineering managers and senior individual contributors; design the org structure and talent strategy needed to meet business goals
- Represent iCasino Experiences in cross-organization programs spanning architecture, delivery, and people — driving alignment while keeping Casino's needs front and center
- Champion improvements to engineering practices, planning processes, and operational maturity that scale beyond your own domain
- Step into ambiguous, cross-team problems that lack a clear owner, structure the work, and lead it to resolution
- Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Benefits
- Full-time employment
- Base and bonus
- Additional benefits as detailed at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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