• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers, supporting their day-to-day effectiveness, technical growth, career development, and long-term goals. • Serve as the technical leader for your team, establishing technical direction and ensuring engineers make sound architectural and software design decisions. • Maintain a deep understanding of your team's systems and technical domain, providing meaningful guidance on architecture, implementation strategy, scalability, reliability, security, and operational readiness. • Partner closely with Product Management to define roadmaps, sequence initiatives, identify dependencies, and develop realistic short- and long-term delivery plans. • Translate product and business objectives into clear technical strategies, ensuring the team understands not only what it is building but why and how the pieces fit together. • Lead the technical planning and execution of complex initiatives from initial discovery and design through implementation, release, and production operation. • Work with engineers and technical leaders to ensure appropriate investment in platform health, technical debt, scalability, security, reliability, observability, and developer efficiency alongside product priorities. • Identify technical risks, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery constraints early, and work with Product and Engineering leadership to make informed tradeoffs and adjust plans when necessary. • Drive accountability for team commitments while creating an environment where risks and challenges are surfaced early and addressed constructively. • Coordinate with other Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, and technical leaders to manage cross-team dependencies and ensure architectural consistency across the broader platform. • Establish and evolve engineering practices and architectural standards that address the unique complexities of LeafLink's business while complementing broader organizational standards. • Improve team effectiveness by using delivery metrics, retrospectives, operational data, and qualitative feedback to identify bottlenecks and drive meaningful improvements. • Ensure the team maintains a healthy, well-understood backlog with sufficient technical discovery and refinement to support predictable execution. • Participate in incident response and production troubleshooting, providing technical leadership during complex incidents and ensuring systemic improvements are identified and implemented. • Recruit, interview, onboard, and retain strong engineering talent while building an inclusive environment where engineers can do their best work. • Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, pragmatic decision-making, and continuous improvement.

• Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on the Git version control system and Git-related infrastructure. • Build a team culture where technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership are the norm. • Drive execution on complex, long-horizon work across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Git architecture. • Help the team balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities. • Support your engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities. • Foster strong written communication and asynchronous alignment across a fully distributed team. • Partner with downstream teams like Gitaly and other stakeholders who rely on Git expertise for performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity. • Represent the team credibly with cross-functional partners and in stakeholder conversations about Git direction, performance, and scalability.

Role Description We are looking for a Director of Software Engineering to lead our core FMX trading team. You will own the delivery, culture, and growth of your team as we build a regulated trading platform from scratch, managing a group of 5 to 8 engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will be deeply involved in technical direction while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. You will partner closely with FMX leadership, compliance, and our existing Fanatics Markets web engineering organisation to establish ways of working that can support 24/7 trading operations. We're pioneering the use of AI as a code collaborator across all of engineering. We need leaders who actively champion AI-assisted development, helping their teams adopt tools like Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot to maximise delivery velocity without compromising quality or regulatory compliance. Responsibilities - Lead your team in exploring and applying new technologies and practices, cultivating a culture of innovation and continuous improvement to deliver a world-class regulated trading platform. - Collaborate closely with Product, Compliance, and other engineering leaders to develop cohesive solutions aligned with FMX strategic objectives and regulatory obligations. - Use data and metrics to guide your team's decision-making, tracking delivery velocity, reliability SLOs, and compliance posture as core team health indicators. - Champion a metrics-driven culture focused on measurable impact, from system uptime and latency to audit trail completeness and daily reporting accuracy. - Invest in the growth and success of your team, offer mentorship, support career development, and help shape the next generation of engineering leaders within FMX. - Oversee the development of scalable, reliable systems while driving modernisation of the Java codebase and new development in Go, Java and Kotlin. - Own engineering processes appropriate for a 24/7 regulated trading environment, sprint planning, on-call rotations, incident response, code review standards, and change management. - Build strong cross-functional partnerships with legal, compliance, and the wider Fanatics engineering organisation to influence technical and product direction. - Communicate complex technical concepts and regulatory requirements with clarity and confidence to stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership. - Champion the use of AI-assisted development tools across your team, setting the standard for responsible adoption that meets regulated-environment quality and security requirements. - Stay on top of industry trends in regulated trading infrastructure and prediction markets, bringing fresh ideas that elevate team performance. - Be open to occasional travel for offsites, cross-team collaboration, or regulatory engagements. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership, with a strong ability to mentor, grow talent, and inspire technical excellence. - 10+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally with a backend focus (Java, Go, or similar). - Background in regulated financial infrastructure strongly preferred, brokerage systems, futures or derivatives exchanges, or comparable regulated environments. - Experience designing and operating production systems with high-availability requirements (24/7 uptime, low-latency, mission-critical). - Solid understanding of compliance obligations in regulated markets, including data sensitivity controls and insider trading restrictions. - Deep understanding of Agile and Scrum, with the agility to adapt in a fast-evolving 0 to 1 environment. - A history of successfully delivering complex, scalable solutions with a focus on reliability and correctness. - Excellent communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills, equally comfortable with engineers, compliance teams, and executive stakeholders. - Experience leading distributed or remote teams across multiple time zones. - Demonstrated experience using or evangelising AI development tools (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, etc.) within an engineering team. - Degree in Computer Science or similar, or equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications - Previous experience at a US-regulated financial exchange or licensed trading platform. - Familiarity with event-driven architectures in a financial context (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar). - Experience with prediction markets or futures/options trading platforms. - Previous experience in a 0→1 or high-growth startup environment. Requirements - Ready to build the future of sports betting? If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply! - Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. - We are open to fully remote candidates based in the United Kingdom. - Remote employees may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend.

• Drive Infrastructure Modernization: Lead the architectural shift to elevate media to a first class citizen. • Optimize Playback & Delivery: Own key success metrics related to Quality of Services (QoS), including Time to First Frame (TTFF), stall/rebuffer rates, exits before video screen (EBVS). You will define the path to ensure reliable streaming for all of our users across the globe. • Manage Global Distribution: Partner closely with our infrastructure teams to define how to scale media via Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), edge computing, and caching strategies. • Standardize Formats: You will drive the standardization of our stack, from streaming protocols (HLS, MPEG-DASH) to container formats (CMAF, MP4). • Champion a culture of innovation and experimentation, where team members are encouraged to explore, test, and refine novel ideas, while balancing platform scale with product velocity. • Establish a clear technical vision and direction for our media systems, while staying ahead of the curve in terms of emerging technologies. • Navigate ambiguity with confidence, utilizing data-driven insights to guide the team towards successful outcomes. • Work in close partnership with Product, Data, and ML teams to ensure effective leadership, alignment with broader organizational objectives, and maximum impact.