# Engineering Manager, Sports Media **Company**: Sportradar **Location**: Minneapolis, Minneapolis **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $180,000 - $200,000 gross per annum **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Sportradar/744000151564059-engineering-manager-sports-media?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_66300e07-27c ## Description We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented engineers building enterprise-grade, high-uptime sports analytics and broadcast tooling. This role balances people leadership and deep technical engagement. You will manage and grow your team while remaining hands-on enough to shape architecture, guide technical decisions, and maintain the high standards of data accuracy and software quality that our enterprise customers depend on. Responsibilities: - Manage a team of software engineers, providing consistent 1:1s, team retros, clear performance feedback, and genuine investment in each engineer's career growth. - Set clear expectations, document goals, and conduct performance reviews; connect individual career aspirations with team and product backlogs. - Mentor engineers at all levels, helping them grow both technically and professionally. - Foster a strong engineering culture built on collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement. - Empower engineers to be creative problem-solvers while maintaining high standards of quality, reliability, and uptime. - Provide hands-on architectural direction across the team's systems, facilitating key decisions around system design, data modeling, and service boundaries. - Drive the reduction of technical debt by identifying systemic risks, prioritizing remediation efforts, and balancing those efforts with feature development. - Participate meaningfully in design reviews, merge request reviews, and technical discussions. - Advocate for engineering best practices including reliability, observability, security, performance, agentic development, and maintainability at scale. - Ensure systems meet the uptime and data accuracy standards expected by enterprise customers. - Lead post-mortems and drive incident follow-through. - Leverage agentic development tools to increase engineering velocity while maintaining high standards of quality, readability, and architectural consistency. - Product Collaboration & Delivery: Partner closely with Product teams to translate business goals into well-scoped and well-sequenced engineering initiatives. - Organize and maintain delivery swim lanes that provide engineers with clear priorities and focused work. - Own team-level delivery commitments, forecast accurately, communicate risks early, and consistently deliver high-quality software. - Balance feature development, platform investment, and technical debt while making trade-offs transparent and defensible. - Participate in cross-functional planning with Product, Design, DevOps, and Architecture teams to ensure alignment and clear ownership boundaries. Requirements: - 3+ years of engineering management experience, including direct line management of software engineers. - Proven track record of growing engineers through coaching, performance management, and career development. - Experience partnering with Product Managers to manage backlogs, facilitate sprint planning, and deliver commitments in an Agile environment. - Comfortable navigating performance discussions directly and constructively. - 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with sufficient hands-on depth to engage credibly on architecture and code quality. - Experience designing and operating data-driven, high-uptime production systems, including microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures. - Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases. - Experience working with high-throughput, low-latency production systems. - Strong understanding of CI/CD practices, software development workflows, and AWS cloud infrastructure. Nice to Have Experience: - Working with sports data or real-time data products. - Experience in enterprise SaaS environments. - Understanding of uptime, data accuracy, and SLA commitments in customer-facing products. - Experience with serverless technologies, including AWS Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions. Benefits: - The opportunity to lead and develop a team building products used by some of the world's most recognized sports, media, and technology organizations. - A highly collaborative and international environment with colleagues across multiple regions and disciplines. - Ownership and influence over both technical strategy and team development. - Exposure to large-scale, real-time sports data systems powering products used by millions of fans worldwide. - The opportunity to work within one of the fastest-growing sports technology companies in the world. - A culture built on innovation, teamwork, continuous learning, and high performance. - Career growth opportunities within a global organization operating at the intersection of sports, media, and technology. ## Skills ### Required - Engineering Management - Software Engineering - Architecture - Data Modeling - Service Boundaries - System Design - SQL - NoSQL - CI/CD - AWS Cloud Infrastructure - Agentic Development ### Nice to have - Sports Data - Real-time Data Products - Enterprise SaaS - Serverless Technologies - AWS Lambda - SQS - Step Functions --- Source: [Apply at jobs.smartrecruiters.com](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Sportradar/744000151564059-engineering-manager-sports-media?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)