Sky Betting & Gaming
Sky Betting & Gaming
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
B2CGamblingGaming
Sky Betting & Gaming is a UK-based consumer betting and online gaming operator within Flutter UK & Ireland and the wider Flutter Entertainment group. The company delivers betting and gaming experiences through digital platforms, including web and mobile apps, and operates from Leeds. Its work centers on customer experience and responsible play across a B2C entertainment business serving millions of customers.

Engineering Manager, Ledger and Customer Balances

Lead the team responsible for the sportsbook ledger and customer balance platform, building secure, scalable Java and AWS systems. Oversee wallet migrations and operational practices.

Description

  • Lead the team responsible for ledger and balance services that manage customer funds.
  • Establish standards for security, reliability, observability, and on-call operations.
  • Migrate existing business wallets to the shared ledger in phases, covering reconciliation, cutover, and rollback plans.
  • Work with Finance, Legal, and Compliance on fund attribution, settlements, chargebacks, and audit needs.
  • Identify and address technical and operational risks.
  • Build and support a strong engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
  • Set and deliver a roadmap that balances new capabilities, migrations, technical health, and operational demands.
  • Plan team capacity, make trade-offs clear, and ensure the team meets its commitments.
  • Deliver maintainable, scalable software that processes high transaction volumes without losing or double-counting transactions.
  • Review designs, contribute to architectural decisions, and help engineers overcome blockers.
  • Communicate with Engineering, Product, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and executive stakeholders.
  • Develop partnerships with Payments and other business teams, agreeing on clear ownership boundaries.
  • Prepare and present roadmaps, vision documents, design reviews, and incident reviews.
  • Represent the balance platform’s technical perspective in company planning.
  • Guide structured, data-informed decisions across engineering, finance, and regulatory work.
  • Give teams clear direction as requirements, business onboarding, and regulatory expectations change.

Requirements

  • At least 3–5 years of experience managing software engineering teams.
  • A record of delivering secure, scalable systems in regulated or high-stakes environments.
  • Experience leading teams or contributing in a Java and AWS environment is preferred.
  • Experience with ledgers, wallets, balance services, payments, or other financial systems of record is highly desirable.
  • Understanding of transactional consistency, idempotency, and data modeling.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms such as Kafka.
  • Experience leading migrations of live, high-traffic systems while minimizing customer impact.
  • Ability to balance strategic direction with technical depth.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to influence Engineering, Product, Finance, Legal, and Compliance.
  • Experience navigating complex cross-functional and regulatory challenges.
  • Commitment to operational excellence and building trusted systems.
  • Interest in mentoring and developing engineers while encouraging accountability, empathy, and innovation.

Benefits

  • Base salary plus bonus.
  • Benefits for full-time employees.
  • Occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.
  • Some interview stages may take place in person.
  • Full-time, non-seasonal hires attend “Launching into Better,” a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City.
  • Benefits information is available at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

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