• Drive the Deep Learning Evolution: Lead the architectural transition from legacy tree-based models (XGBoost) to advanced Neural Network architectures (Deep Learning) for audience propensity, lookalike modeling, and real-time segmentation. • Own Value-Based Bidding (ROAS): Evolve our bidding strategy from simple conversion prediction to sophisticated ROAS-based optimization, developing models that predict user value (LTV) to maximize client returns within dynamic auction environments. • Champion Agentic AI & Automation: Spearhead the exploration and adoption of autonomous agentic workflows to enhance decisioning and operational efficiency, moving beyond static models to self-correcting systems. • Build Production Deep Learning Systems: Oversee the end-to-end engineering of high-scale inference pipelines, including embedding layers, real-time feature stores, and low-latency serving infrastructure such as ONNX, TensorRT etc. • Advance MLOps & Experimentation: Establish rigorous MLOps practices for model versioning and drift detection while shifting further into multi-armed bandit strategies (Exploration vs. Exploitation) that optimize directly for business outcomes (Revenue/GP) rather than just model metrics. • Lead and grow the Data Science team: hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development. • Partner with Product and Client Success to translate business requirements into ML solutions and communicate model capabilities. • Coordinate with Data Platform team to ensure reliable data foundations and feature pipelines for modeling. • Translate complex ML concepts into actionable insights for business stakeholders and executives. • Set technical direction and foster a culture of innovation, rigor, and continuous improvement.

Role Description You will lead the evolution of the Platform organization to better support the company's global objectives across SaaS, developer productivity, and on-prem delivery. Your role will be to expand, organize, and mature the platform function into a clear, efficient, and strategic capability. - Define and drive a platform strategy across three core domains: - SaaS & Platform: reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of production environments - Developer Experience (DevX): self-service, high-performance CI/CD and developer tooling - Release & Validation Platform: infrastructure to support exhaustive compatibility testing for on-prem releases - Bring clarity of ownership, improve efficiency, and position the platform as a key enabler of product delivery and customer success. Qualifications - Essential experience in Kubernetes - Hyperscalers: AWS mandatory - Engineering management experience - Desirable but not essential: - Experience with other European cloud providers - Hybrid/multi-cloud operations - Experience in on-prem enterprise backend software Requirements - Accountable for service availability and uptime, meeting the needs of our service level agreements with customers. - Experience working in a fast-paced, scaling environment, ensuring reliability and operational preparedness. - Hold a leading role in defining, planning, and executing large-scale initiatives. - Ensure the platform and operations operating model scales with technical and product roadmaps. - Essential experience in the design, operation, and continuous improvement of a large-scale Kubernetes environment. - Proven experience in ensuring platform reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity. - Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented SRE and DevOps engineers. - Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance evaluations. - Define and lay the foundation for Wire's internal Developer Platform. - Manage team demand and capacity needs. - Collaborate across disciplines to help instrument the code for scalable, reliable, and observable systems. - Drive initiatives to optimize cloud spending. Benefits - Impact: Join a market-proven company trusted by over 1,000 customers across diverse sectors. - Growth: Be part of a dynamic team where your ideas will shape the future of secure communications. - Culture: Work in an inclusive environment that values diversity, collaboration, and innovation. - Enjoy a yearly education budget of 1000 EUR to strengthen personal capabilities. - With an Urban Sports Club subscription, stay balanced and mentally and physically healthy! - Enjoy competitive salary packages, performance bonuses, and extensive professional development opportunities. - Flexible working arrangements and a vibrant office culture in Berlin. - Enjoy fresh breakfast in the office, daily fruits, snacks, free soft drinks, and the world's best Barista coffee machine.

• Lead your team of 4-7 software engineers. Set clear priorities, goals and success criteria for the team. • Own team capacity planning, hiring inputs and resource allocation across your workstreams. • Day-to-day leadership, coaching, team recruitment, and people development. • Mentor other members of the team. • Lead agile development process that adds incremental value to the platform with each iteration. • Own engineering execution for multiple international market launches, including feature development, market localization, rollout readiness, issue resolution and transition into a scalable support model. • Own the engineering plan and budget/resource allocation for your workstreams, including capacity planning, sequencing, vendor needs, and clear trade-off proposals when demand exceeds capacity. • Shape the long-term architecture and engineering direction for the Byte platform, balancing near-term market needs with scalability, reliability, supportability, security and cost of ownership. • Set long-term guidance and direction for AI tool usage on the team, using it to improve productivity across development, testing, documentation and support while keeping clear expectations for quality, security and engineer ownership. • Own realistic project plans and make sure they are executed within approved budget, scope, resource and quality constraints; raise tradeoffs early when market commitments, dependencies or funding assumptions change. • Solve both ambiguous and complex problems with real risk, working alongside cross-functional teams. • Frequently interact with Senior Leadership/exec teams, both within Byte and within brands/markets, to align on rollout strategy, roadmap tradeoffs, resourcing needs and delivery risks. • Communicate complex topics/problems in an articulate manner. • Collaborate with product management, other engineering teams, quality assurance, operations, and other functions to develop the right solutions. • Help build the kind of team culture where engineers are excited to show up to work.

Role Description Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is on a mission to create the best online sportsbook in the industry. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager (Sr. SEM) to lead an engineering team focused on delivering a secure, trusted, and seamless experience for our customers. This leader will own critical systems at the core of responsible gaming, regulatory compliance, and player eligibility — guiding teams through complex and ambiguous problems while ensuring operational excellence, consistent delivery, and long-term strategic impact. Success in this role requires building strong, collaborative relationships with Product, Data, Risk, Legal, and Compliance partners to align on strategy, priorities, and outcomes that protect both our customers and our business. The Sr. SEM plays a pivotal role in shaping the architecture, processes, and engineering culture that ensure trust, safety, and compliance across the Fanatics Sportsbook ecosystem. You will lead backend engineering teams (Java, AWS) responsible for the systems that gate customer access to the platform — from real-time geolocation checks to responsible gaming limit enforcement and regulatory exclusion list ingestion. At FBG, we're revolutionizing sports betting with cutting-edge technology, a customer-first mindset, and a world-class engineering team. Responsibilities - Lead engineering teams that own high-scale, high-stakes compliance systems across geolocation, state & self exclusion, responsible gaming, NJ data residency, and prohibited persons. - Drive operational excellence by setting high standards for security, reliability, and regulatory compliance. - Establish strong monitoring and alerting mechanisms to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraudulent activity and compliance violations. - Partner with Risk, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure regulatory requirements, responsible gaming standards, and state-level gaming compliance obligations are met. - Own systems that enforce compliance gaming controls — including wager limits, session controls, cooling-off periods, self-exclusion enforcement, and problem gambling intervention workflows. - Oversee geolocation and location services infrastructure that verifies customer location at the point of wagering. - Lead the engineering strategy for user sync processes — ensuring customer account data, eligibility status, self-exclusion flags, and compliance attributes remain consistent and up-to-date. - Maintain and evolve systems that enforce prohibited persons policies — including detection, blocking, and auditing of individuals who are legally or contractually barred from participation. - Proactively identify and resolve technical or operational risks before they impact customers or business integrity. - Build and maintain high-performing, mission-driven engineering teams focused on trust, safety, compliance, and performance. - Define and execute a roadmap balancing customer experience, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and player protection. - Empower teams to solve complex challenges in real-time eligibility enforcement, data replication, and responsible gaming tooling. - Deliver robust, maintainable, and scalable software systems that protect customer data and ensure seamless, compliant account experiences. - Communicate clearly and effectively with engineers, Product, Data Science, Legal, and Compliance stakeholders. - Build deep partnerships with Fraud, Risk, Responsible Gaming, and Compliance Gaming product teams to align on goals and trade-offs. - Drive crisp technical and strategic discussions across teams and leadership. - Author and present clear documentation — including engineering roadmaps, vision documents, compliance risk assessments, and incident reviews. - Represent the CAT domain's technical perspective in broader organizational strategy and planning. - Lead teams through highly ambiguous security, risk, compliance gaming, and geolocation challenges with structured, data-informed approaches. - Foster a culture of accountability and innovation — balancing experimentation with rigorous controls. - Provide clarity and vision amid changing regulatory and threat landscapes. Qualifications - 5-7+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, with a track record of delivering secure, scalable systems in high-risk or regulated environments. - Background leading teams or contributing in a Java, AWS ecosystem preferred. - Demonstrated experience building systems for fraud detection, payments, compliance, or responsible gaming is highly desirable. - Experience with geolocation and location services technologies used in regulated online gaming or financial services contexts is a strong plus. - Familiarity with compliance gaming controls — including self-exclusion systems, wager/session limit enforcement, exclusion registry integrations, and responsible gaming tooling. - Experience designing or managing user sync and data consistency pipelines across distributed systems and third-party platforms. - Exposure to prohibited persons enforcement frameworks, including integrations with state or national exclusion registries. - Strong communication and storytelling skills to influence across Engineering, Product, Risk, Legal, and Compliance. - Proven experience navigating complex, cross-functional, and regulatory challenges. - Commitment to operational excellence and building resilient, high-trust systems. - Passion for mentoring and developing engineers and leaders, while fostering a culture of security, empathy, and innovation. Benefits - Remote employees may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend. - Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components. - Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. - Open to fully remote candidates based in the United Kingdom.