Lead Software Engineer - Release Engineering

FanDuel ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
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FanDuel Group is a collection of brands operating at the intersection of sports, gaming, tech, and entertainment. Our mission is to give sports fans the chance to win everyday and create experiences they can't wait to share with their friends. We're not just a company, we're a collective. And we're not just coworkers, we're a community. We're an all-hands-on-deck crew of dreamers, doers, thinkers, makers, builders, breakers, and rebuilders. We value teamwork above all else, and we believe that diversity and inclusiveness are at the core of any good team. Like any good sports team, we've got passion. Passion for building a product our customers will love, passion for being the best in our field, and passion for our own people. With a company that's as committed to its people as it is to its customers, FanDuel Group is a great place to develop yourself and your career. Release Engineering is a brand new team in FanDuel. Our goal is to enable engineering teams to maximize the velocity at which they can deliver new functionality to our customers. We will achieve this with quality and control in an automated framework. This is an opportunity to shape and implement world class automated delivery and deployment at scale. The online U.S. gaming market is new and you can help us to be a leader in the industry by giving us the ability to deliver valuable products and services to market as efficiently as possible in a regulated environment. We're looking for a passionate technologist with strong communication and a commitment to continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will be able provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of software engineers. Role and expectations * Design and architect large scale delivery and deployment frameworks that enable product development teams to deploy and release software to customers. * Build and support these tools and frameworks. These will provide different options to suit the varying product risk profiles. * Identify technologies to help the team tackle complex challenges and best serve our customers. * Create and promote best practices for delivery and deployment in a DevOps culture. * Provide the capabilities that manage product release trains for features or system components that require regulator oversight or testing before, or after, release. * Ensure that the best practices and tools are in place to fulfil our other change submission control standards e.g. automated promotion checks, release notifications/approvals to/from stakeholders, change auditing etc. * Write good, professional, code leading best practices. * Mentor the release engineers and influence the wider group. * Contribute to the professional development of the team, including technical assessment, improvement of their technical knowledge and best engineering practices. * Reflect our values in day-to-day working. Experience and characteristics * Strong sense of ownership, with demonstrated experience in shipping high quality products and services. * Extensive experience as a software engineer and the ability to lead the team in best practice across technologies in large projects. * Experience designing and building frameworks to further CI/CD practices. * Proven ability to provide technical leadership, guidance and mentoring. * Proficient in object-oriented programming languages. * Experience with database integrations (SQL/NoSQL). * Good understanding of source control management and integrations e.g. GitHub API. * Experience with CI tools. For example, gated promotion pipelines in Jenkins. * Familiarity with configuration management e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible. * Demonstrated use of artifact control tools (Nexus, Artifactory, Image repositories). * Experience working with an AWS technical stack. * Strong communication skills and ability to build relationships with colleagues across the company. * Loves automation. * You believe anything is possible and that great teams achieve great things together. Bonus points for * Experience with API development. * Knowledge of * Experience with GitOps like frameworks. What you can expect An open and collaborative team who value and respect each other An autonomous environment where you are empowered to make decisions A new technical challenge around every corner, we're never short of interesting problems to solve An excellent wellbeing package including, flexible working & uncapped holidays, employee assistance program, full medical, dental and optical cover and cycle to work scheme. Excellent development opportunities including, 10% time, hackathons, conference attendance, online and in-office training and our preference is to promote from within. A stress-free financial package inclusive of, pension, life assurance, share save scheme, value creation rewards and season ticket commuter loans. We're very proud of the company we have created and the biggest contributor to our success is our people. We strive to create an environment that allows people to brin

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