Senior Software Engineer, Sports Content - Hybrid

Bet365careers; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

bet365 is seeking a Senior Software Developer for its Manchester Tech Hub to drive the design, delivery and maintenance of the Martech Content Platform. You will lead a small team, mentor colleagues, and ensure scalable, reliable systems align with business needs.

The role supports a hybrid working model and requires experience guiding projects end-to-end, with a focus on high-availability services and strong documentation to enable rapid delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience of guiding development teams throughout technical projects from delivery to successful completion.
• Ability to mentor and coach.
• Strong technical documentation skills.
• Experience of working with high availability, multiuser and service-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Acting as a point of escalation for the team both in and out of office hours.
• Leading and delivering the development of scalable, maintainable and performant systems.
• Applying active governance around overall solution design, while setting the standard for code quality and delivery within the team.
• Ensuring solutions meet the needs of the Business.
• Taking responsibility for work estimation, producing solution documents and ultimately ensuring accurate portrayals of effort can be obtained and subsequently delivered.
• Understanding the technical structure, domain and architecture of the systems the team is responsible for.
• Leading the technical delivery a small team of developers in the design and development of a solution from start to finish.
• Owning technical solutions and their hands on delivery from development to live at low level.
• Distributing knowledge and mentoring of team members.

Skills

Team leadership

Mentoring

Documentation

High availability

Service-based systems

Job description

bet365 is seeking a Senior Software Developer for its Manchester Tech Hub to drive the design, delivery and maintenance of the Martech Content Platform. You will lead a small team, mentor colleagues, and ensure scalable, reliable systems align with business needs.

The role supports a hybrid working model and requires experience guiding projects end-to-end, with a focus on high-availability services and strong documentation to enable rapid delivery.