Software Engineer-1

Software Engineer Research & Development
Location Leeds or Dublin
Hybrid working

Permanent

At Flutter Group we design build and run a world-class global sports betting platform for the largest online betting company in the world. Our technology powers sports betting for over 20 in-house brands and B2B customers running 24/7 365 days a year across the globe.

Were looking for Software Engineers to join our Research and Development team within Global Sportsbook and Trading. Our Sports and Trading platform is already an industry leadergenerating pricing distributing and managing the risk on nearly one million sports events per yearbut were always pushing to do better. We are always innovating always challenging ourselves. The R&D teams challenge is to explore new technologies and the value they can bring to help shape the future of sports betting technology.

What youll be working on:

Sports betting is a fast-paced highly competitive industry. Key focus areas with GST include:

• Generating exciting betting opportunities for our customers staying ahead of our competitors.
• Generating accurate pricing and liability management tools to protect our business.
• Building the best-in-class tech stack that delivers both while continuously scaling and evolving with the business.

The R&D team will explore modern technologies in the context of solving real business challenges for the GST team. We will deliver real insights on the potential value of these technologies that enable informed decisions on our tech strategy.

Is this you

• You love to innovate and experiment with new technologies.
• You have a passion for solving complex problems with technology
• You have the analytical approach and an interest in critical thinking that helps you develop research hypotheses and interpret experimental findings.
• You start by understanding problems from multiple perspectives
• Youre highly motivated and manage your own time well
• You understand that its the value you create and what you contribute that matters not how long you spend working
• You have the confidence to ask a question that you know others want answered.
• You expect others to show trust in you but you understand it works both ways
• Youre an empowered pragmatic decision-maker who balances risk against rewards
• You take pride in and demonstrate ownership for what you deliver

What youll do

• Contribute to the development and execution of research experiments that will inform the GST future roadmap
• Document and interpret complex research findings to answer critical business questions.
• Effectively communicate within the team and also showcase the teams research within the department
• Adhere to the teams standards in terms of engineering practices and code quality maintainability and testability.
• Show eagerness to learn new tools & technologies
• Be flexible to changing requirements and priorities while managing own task list and time
• Be a team player put the team above the individual and take responsibility for the teams reputation
• Troubleshoot and debug experimental processes
• Contribute to the on-going evolution and continuous improvement of the team
• Comply with all data security and governance requirements within the organisation.

What youll need

• Several years of experience as a software engineer.
• Willingness to learn new programming languages if needed
• Ideally experience in Python coding or comparable programming languages
• Experience in a start-up environment or research focused area is a bonus.
• Hands-on experience working with AWS Cloud Services or equivalent public cloud providers.
• Knowledge of cloud SDKs for deploying and managing services.
• Knowledge of data storage pipeline and analytics services is a bonus
• Experience of working in a DevOps CI/CD environment.
• Familiarity with and interest in working with Generative AI
• Bonus for experience working with e.g.
• OpenAI SDKs
• RAG workflows
• Agentic workflows
• Experience in data science / machine learning is a bonus
• Bachelors/masters degree in computer science engineering or related discipline advantageous

Whats in it for you
We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:

• Bonus scheme
• Uncapped holiday allowance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• 1000 annual self-development learning fund
• Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
• Enhanced parental leave

About Flutter

We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming with a market leading position in the US and across the world.

We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel Sky Betting & Gaming Sportsbet PokerStars Paddy Power Sisal tombola Betfair MaxBet Junglee Games and Adjarabet.

With our global scale and challenger attitude through which we excite and entertain our customers in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power the Flutter Edge we aim to disrupt the sector learning from the past to create a better future for our customers colleagues and communities.

Were working to be an inclusive employer and we encourage people from all backgrounds ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you dont have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know and well see how we can accommodate them.