Sr. Software Engineering Manager, FanApp

Overview 

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Fanatics, you will be a technical leader with the ability to grow and scale engineering teams that can deliver business results and ship high-quality software with customer-facing products and internal platforms.  You will be leading teams that are at the forefront of enhancing our platform, aiming to make it the top sports app in the United States by transforming the way fans connect with their favorite sports, teams, and athletes. These teams play a crucial role in conceptualizing, developing, and managing platforms that captivate users with engaging news, scores, free-to-play games, content, and community interactions. As part of the Fan Ecosystem team, you will be instrumental in shaping and implementing our strategies for both attracting new users and retaining existing ones

We are one team; we employ the principles of data-driven development, operational excellence, process calibration, and efficiency to deliver a stable, extensible platform at scale.  Through fundamentals and excellence in object-oriented design, coding patterns, modern open-source frameworks, and 3rd party platform integrations, we can achieve our goals to rapidly deliver and innovate in this exciting new market. 

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical expertise within your engineering vertical
• Build and lead one or more teams that will deliver software while adhering (and contributing) to engineering best practices
• Clarify technical requirements, negotiate priorities, and manage projects to deliver on time by leading daily scrum activities
• Clears or escalates blocker to accelerate progress of delivery
• Write clear documentation and create engineering roadmaps for your teams and communicate the state of the backlog
• Communicate, develop, and implement a data-driven engineering strategy, approach, and roadmap for Engineering needs
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, inside and outside of Engineering, and collaborate with leaders to prioritize technical efforts and provide input on product features and capabilities
• Work with Product and Experience Design counterparts to build an ambitious, yet achievable roadmap
• Drive predictability and reliability through Operational Excellence and create clear objectives and transparency through the use of data and KPIs.
• Provide clear updates (KPIs, status, metrics) to an executive audience and key stakeholders
• Help identify technology gaps and opportunities, taking ownership for the technology roadmap within the space and ensuring appropriate engineering investments in the underlying platform
• Lead team to invent, evolve, and/or deprecate solutions
• Determine where to simplify, optimize, or extend solutions for the best outcomes
• Drives resolution to architecture contention
• Drive discussions around business and technology decisions, and participates in strategic initiatives with 1 to 3 year time horizons
• Develop talent within their team, ensuring developers have the right opportunities and looking outside occasionally for tangential opportunities for growth
• Help to recruit, assess and onboard a diverse group of talented engineers
• Develop solid understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
• Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing an engineering team
• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems
• You have knowledge of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different teams
• Able to scope a project and evaluate releases to ensure they meet business needs
• Knows how to discern which features are essential, can be triaged, or omitted and works to negotiate with Product Management
• Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders)
• Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent influencing and problem resolution skills
• Solid report writing skills with the ability to gather, evaluate and analyze relevant information while structuring material in a logical and coherent manner.
• You have an agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regul