Technical Product Manager - Betting Engine

Caesars Entertainment; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company in Leeds is seeking a Technical Product Manager to enhance their Betting Platform. In this role, you will work with product and engineering teams to drive modernization and ensure a seamless betting experience. Ideal candidates have 2-5 years of experience in product management, strong technical skills, and an understanding of sports betting. This hybrid position requires working 2-3 days a week from home.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in product management or related role.
• Proven experience managing real-time, high-throughput platforms.
• Strong understanding of betting markets and sports betting engines.
• Experience with cloud environments, messaging systems, and databases.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the product roadmap for the Betting Engine.
• Collaborate with teams to support platform enhancements.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Manage and prioritize the Betting Engine backlog.

Skills

Experience in product management

Management of real-time platforms

Stakeholder management

Strong communication skills

Understanding of sports betting

Technical foundation

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Job description

Overview

As a Technical Product Manager - Betting Platform, you will play a key role in supporting the evolution of Caesars Digital's Betting Engine and related services. You\'ll collaborate with product leaders, engineering, and trading teams to help modernize and enhance our platform, contributing to a seamless and engaging betting experience for our customers across all channels.

This role is ideal for someone with a solid technical foundation and a growing understanding of the sports betting domain. Technically, you need a sound understanding of high-performance, real-time systems to deliver a robust, scalable solution for the future.

This role is hybrid, working a minimum of 2-3 days per week from your home office location.

Home Office: Leeds, UK

What You\'ll Do

• Contribute to the product roadmap for the Betting Engine, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with Pricing / Trading teams to support platform enhancements aligned with quarterly and annual goals.
• Maintain working knowledge of the Betting Engine\'s architecture and functionality, supporting the engineers in prioritizing those efforts against product development.
• Assist in managing technical debt and support initiatives to optimize or refactor platform components.
• Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to deliver high-quality solutions aligned with broader technical goals.
• Facilitate integration efforts with adjacent systems including our frontend mobile experience, kiosk experience, and compliance.
• Support analytics and reporting needs by ensuring the platform enables relevant data capture.
• Translate business and customer needs into clear technical requirements for engineering teams.
• Manage and prioritize the Betting Engine backlog, balancing stakeholder input and internal needs.
• Track and report on functional and non-functional key performance indicators (KPIs) such as trading update speed, bet placement, and bet settlement, for a product that serves other business units as well as the end customer.
• Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders and leadership.

What You Bring

• 2-5 years of experience in product management or a related role, ideally in Sports Betting, iGaming, FinTech, or high-performance systems.
• Proven experience managing real-time, high-throughput platforms with a focus on reliability and scalability.
• Strong understanding of betting markets, odds, and the intricacies of Sports Betting engines is a significant advantage.
• A strong technical foundation, with an understanding of modern architectures, microservices, and APIs.
• Experience working with high-transaction, low-latency systems in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka, distributed databases, and caching strategies is a plus.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to balance competing priorities and foster cross-team collaboration.
• Strong communication skills, capable of bridging the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders.

About Us

At Caesars Digital, We Don\'t Just Play the Game - We Set the Standard.

As a proud part of Caesars Entertainment, the world\'s premier gaming company with more than 80 years of sports betting leadership, Caesars Digital is blazing the trail in digital innovation, customer experience and industry excellence.

We believe every Team Member should be treated like royalty because We Are All Caesars. This guiding principle fuels our commitment to delivering legendary service and creating unforgettable experiences for our customers.

From cutting-edge digital platforms including Caesars Sportsbook, Caesars Palace Online, Horseshoe Online Casino and Caesars Racebook, to the continuing expansion of our retail footprint and our William Hill legacy, along with powerhouse partnerships across sports and entertainment, we\'re building something extraordinary. And we want you to be part of it.

Ready to make your mark on the Empire?

Explore our open roles and discover how you can help shape the future of gaming.

Join us. Blaze the Trail. Because at Caesars Digital, We Are All Caesars.