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Salary: USD 256,857 - 302,185 / annual
Gametime is a live-experience marketplace platform operating across iOS, Android, mobile web, and desktop, supporting 60,000+ events across the US and Canada. The company's mission is to unite the world through shared experiences by making it easy for people to discover and access live events.
The Fan Experience team owns the demand-side marketplace experience—how fans discover, decide on, and purchase tickets. As Director of Engineering for this team, you will lead a group of full-stack and front-end engineers building the features and value propositions that define the fan experience on all platforms. You will partner day-to-day with a dedicated Product Manager and Designer, moving quickly from idea to production.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You will spend meaningful time writing and reviewing code alongside your team, setting the standard for how the team leverages frontier AI models, AI coding agents, and modern development tooling to increase both velocity and quality. You will own the engineering roadmap and execution plan for your area, balancing speed, quality, and technical debt.
Key responsibilities include:
- Hands-on coding leadership: spend real time on the keyboard with your team, leading from the front
- AI-forward engineering: establish how the team uses frontier models and AI coding tools to generate, review, test, and monitor code
- Cross-functional partnership: operate as a true peer to Product and Design, bringing your own point of view on what should be built
- Velocity investment: identify and invest in tooling, domain foundation design, tech debt paydown, and better AI integration in the development loop
- Risk partnership: surface risks in proposed work and bring concrete mitigation recommendations
- Mentorship and talent: mentor engineers toward their next level, maintain a high hiring bar, and help level up talent across teams
- Cross-team technical leadership: partner with engineering leads on other teams to improve the marketplace technically over time
This role reports to the VP of Product.
Requirements:
- Hands-on engineering manager comfortable spending real time writing and reviewing code alongside your team
- Direct experience using frontier models, AI coding agents, and modern tooling to meaningfully improve engineering velocity and quality
- Track record of shipping consumer-facing product features that moved measurable business outcomes
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills; comfortable operating as a true peer to Product and Design
- Meaningful people-management experience (typically 5+ years in engineering, including several as a manager)
- Familiarity with SQL/analytics to diagnose funnel and feature performance
- Experience leading full-stack teams with end-to-end ownership of consumer-facing web and mobile products, backend services, and APIs in a high-traffic marketplace or e-commerce environment
- Strong understanding of modern front-end stacks (React, React Native), backend services, APIs, and full-stack architecture
- Experience partnering with Product and Design in a fast-moving, iterative environment (feature flags, A/B testing, rapid experimentation)
- Data-driven approach to prioritization and technical trade-offs
Nice to have:
- Experience in consumer marketplaces or high-intent, high-conversion consumer apps
- Track record of building or championing internal tooling/platform investments that compounded team velocity
