Software Engineering Manager, Sportsbook Mobile

Overview 

As an Engineering Manager, Sportsbook Mobile at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), 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.  Your team will be responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining the software to provide our customers with an industry leading experience.  This role involves both technical leadership and people management, ensuring that our engineering team is effective, motivated, and aligned with the company’s goals.  

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 a team 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
• Clear 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
• 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
• Evaluate engineering work work (code, design) to ensure results are high quality
• Ensure technology solutions are testable, monitored, and maintainable
• Successfully balance feature delivery deadlines with available resources without sacrificing quality
• Develop talent within your team, ensuring developers have the right opportunities. 
• 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

• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems
• Mobile application development experience
• You have knowledge of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different  teams
• Demonstrated experience mentoring other engineers
• 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 regularly and decisions are made quickly
• Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
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