Job description
Rush Street Interactive (NYSE: RSI) is a market leader in online casino and sports betting, currently operating real-money gaming with our brands: BetRivers.com, PlaySugarHouse.com, and RushBet.co. We’re building bridges between online, social and land-based gaming businesses to create amazing, integrated experiences that keep players in the game.
Rush Street Interactive (RSI) is seeking an experienced, visionary and hands-on Vice President, Software Engineering to lead and transform our engineering organization(s). This is a critical and strategic role, responsible for modernizing our software delivery through best in class software development practices, adopting AI to enable software development and adopting a cutting edge architecture.
This position will act a trusted partner and advisor to our C-Suite.
What You’ll Do:
- Drive execution, strategy, and change management as a senior technology executive to support the CTO and RSI’s organizational strategic plans
- Architect and scale RSI’s platforms focusing on microservices, high-availability, performance, cost optimization, and automation.
- Spearhead a AI-powered productivity transformation: leverage AI toolchains and assisted coding workflows across all engineering teams.
- Set and deliver engineering excellence goals around CI/CD pipelines, observability, incident response, technical debt reduction, and operational KPIs in alignment with our Platform Engineering strategies
- Recruit, develop, and lead a global high-performing engineering organization, including senior engineering leaders and cross-functional product teams.
- Drive a culture of velocity and quality focused on a stellar user experience for our players: mentor engineering leaders, and encourage innovation.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, Security, Operations, and Executive teams to align on roadmap, technical strategy, and business outcomes.
- Be able to be hands-on: routinely engage in code reviews, architectural design, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; solid CS fundamentals.
- 15+ years in software engineering with at least 7+ years in senior leadership roles in high-growth or complex enterprises.
- Proven experience managing large engineering organizations, at scale and across geographies and time zones.
- Deep expertise in cloud based architecture, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven design, and API ecosystems.
- Prior experience leading large-scale platform modernization (GenAI/AI experience highly preferred)
- Track record delivering measurable productivity gains, reducing cycle time and increasing deployment velocity.
- Strong bias for action — comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels, with a results-driven mindset.
- Excellent communicator and cross-functional influencer; experienced in executive presentations, roadmap negotiation, and stakeholder alignment.
- High energy, empathetic leadership style: visible, approachable, and hands-on.
- Able to travel occasionally both domestically and internationally 25% annual travel (i.e. training, team summits, etc.) #LI-HYBRID #LI-PROMOTE
What Makes Us Great:
- Comprehensive compensation
- Work-life balance initiatives
- Autonomy – we embrace personal freedom and responsibility
- Creativity – we are open to new ideas of how we can be better
- Growth – we want you to develop personally as well as professionally
- Top-notch professionals who are passionate about what they do
- People-oriented environment and supportive atmosphere
As a rapidly growing company in an emerging industry, you’ll have a huge impact on our product and our company. We like proactive team members and strive to have a company of self-disciplined professionals who enjoy collaboration, having fun, and of course, achieving together what others believe to be improbable. We are dedicated to treating everyone with respect and to support your professional and personal growth.
Rush Street Interactive is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity and expression, marital status, family status, lifestyle, age, culture, religion, military and veteran status, citizenship, or disability.
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