This role is remote, with one required visit to your designated home office per quarter.

Remote option is available for employees located in the following states; AZ, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, MI, MS, MT, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TX, TN, WA, WV, and Washington D.C. (States subject to change at any time)

Home Office: Jersey City, NJ

With William Hill now a part of Caesars Entertainment, we plan to lead the pack by delivering products our customers love to use! As Caesars/William Hill, we operate sports betting in 18 U.S. jurisdictions and have partnerships with the biggest leagues and media companies in the country including, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, ESPN, and CBS Sports. Marking a major milestone in American sports history, we opened the first-ever sports betting venue within a professional United States sports facility, the Caesars Sportsbook at the Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. Partnerships like this are positioning our business to skyrocket as sports betting continues to expand across the country and our customers get a taste of the action.

On the Technology side, we’ve built an entire sports betting and iGaming platform from the ground up in less than 3 years. Through continuous improvement and data-informed product development, we are adding features so that our customers have the best product experience in the market. Our Product Technology team is comprised of the brightest minds in Tech, and our culture of autonomy and decisiveness gives the team the freedom to deliver without constantly seeking permission to take action. We chart our own path and innovate as we create the next generation of products. We’re looking for like-minded superstars that want to work with the best of the best and join the biggest name in sports betting and iGaming as we take over the U.S. market!

What You Will Do:

• Be a leading Scala engineer in terms of "hands on" contribution and a driving force in our Back Office Platform development for Caesarsd
• Create and drive solutions through collaboration with the other engineers in the team to deliver market leading trading products
• Strong interest in the functional programming paradigm and exploring the benefits with the engineering teams in new developments
• Lead key Back Office Platform areas of architectural alignment including API standards, patterns and technology choices for functionality such as single wallet, single account
• Work with internal development teams and 3rd party feed providers to create payment and withdrawal solutions 
• Establish, maintain, document and communicate architectural vision for the US trading platform
• Lead technology-led improvements and initiatives with the other members of the Back Office Platform engineering team 
• Design and document solutions 
• Be accountable for the Non-Functional Requirements of a solution from the definition, delivery and verification of these requirements with the team
• Contribute to and own the technology roadmap for the US trading platform 
• Highlight existing US digital platform architecture tech debts and create plan to address potential failure points before they happen
• Work with the lead architect to ensure the "target state" and the "as-is architecture" is up to date for domain of trading
• Interface with wider Caesars teams to effectively drive the solution including InfoSec, Infrastructure and Support
• Nurture best practices and guide teams through implementation difficulties
• Bring fresh ideas to the table and lead POC's
• Provide technical leadership and guidance, serve as a sounding board to engineers

 What You Will Need

• 4+ years’ experience successfully leading architecture for multiple agile software product deliveries
• 4+ years leading Scala based platform architecture including messaging technologies such as Kafka
• 5+ years’ experience in a senior or lead software development role
• Awareness of architecture methodologies and how to apply them including ToGAF, Zachman etc

A bit about you:
• All traits of a good engineer & an experienced leader of people
• Approachable, rational & respectful
• Will see things through to the end and set the example for their team to follow
• Has a creative approach to problem solving while keeping solutions as simple as possible
• Not afraid to work outside of their comfort zone and knows what benefit can be given even without deep knowledge of the systems or people

William Hill provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union/domestic partnership status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws.  William Hill complies with applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.  This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, separation, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

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