Software Engineering Manager

Football Radar

Football Radar have been successfully developing statistical models and analytical frameworks for football for over 10 years. We provide advice to football clubs, and we are also a leading provider of betting advice, where we have helped our clients achieve outstanding returns for over 10 years. We see ourselves as an interesting mix of start-up and established business, with the agility of the former and the security of the latter.

About the Role

At Football Radar, we analyse and predict football matches. Our software engineering team is responsible for helping build and maintain the software that makes that possible - everything from modern web applications to statistical models, real time data platforms to cloud infrastructure.

As the leader of this team, you will:

• Manage, motivate and mentor a high-performing software engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement

• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects

• Develop the team's technical roadmap

• Support the recruitment and retention of our software engineers

• Help set the strategic direction for the software engineering team, balancing technical and business demands 

• Oversee the maintenance and support of existing software systems

This role is based at our London office, at 1 Craven Hill, London, W2 3EN. You will have flexibility to work from home one day a week. But please note we are not considering remote candidates at the moment. 

Role Requirements

We are first and foremost a football company, and to have a big impact here, it will help if you have domain expertise – you will probably be a big football fan, and ideally someone who is comfortable with the mathematical and statistical approaches we are applying to the game. If you have any experience with sports betting or football analytics that is a bonus. 

We’d love to hear from you if this sounds like you:

• Experienced software engineer

• 2+ years experience as a technical manager or team lead 

• A strategic mindset, and a successful project management track record

• A passion for developing and mentoring members of your team

• Well-versed in working with distributed systems and microservice architectures in the cloud

• Willing to work across our tech stack: Scala, Python, C++, Typescript and PHP.

• Experience in building

• Thrives on responsibility and ownership

• Excellent communication, time management and organisational skills

Benefits

We have a range of benefits available at Football Radar and continue to review these to ensure our colleagues are gaining everything they can from them.

• Half yearly bonus opportunities based on company performance

• 33 days holiday (Including bank holidays)

• Competitive contribution matched pensions

• Health and well-being benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance (including excess coverage)

• Health Cash Plan via Bupa

• Subsidised gym membership

• Daily subsidised office meals

• Learning and development budgets to invest in your personal growth

• Company and team led engagement activities throughout the year

• Fortnightly five-a-side game amongst colleagues