Engineering Manager, Sports Media

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.