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Salary: USD 163,000 - 265,000 / annual
Fanatics is a global digital sports platform serving over 100 million sports fans worldwide. The company operates across three main verticals: Fanatics Commerce (licensed fan gear, jerseys, apparel), Fanatics Collectibles (physical and digital trading cards, memorabilia), and Fanatics Betting & Gaming (sportsbook and iGaming platform). With 22,000+ employees, 900+ sports properties as partners, and 2,000+ retail locations including Lids stores, Fanatics is a major player in the sports fan engagement space.
As Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead one or more engineering teams building and scaling the Fanatics App—a mobile platform that unifies Free to Play games, live events, ecommerce, and new product experiences. You will be a technical leader responsible for team growth, software delivery quality, and business results.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing technical leadership and expertise within your engineering vertical
- Building and leading teams across mobile and backend platforms, managing and developing engineers
- Managing technical requirements, negotiating priorities, and leading daily scrum activities
- Partnering with product and design to create ambitious yet achievable roadmaps
- Driving reliable team execution through clear objectives, data-driven KPIs, and continuous improvement
- Championing adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows (development tooling, documentation, testing, code review augmentation)
- Communicating status, metrics, and KPIs to executive stakeholders
- Recruiting, assessing, and onboarding diverse engineering talent
- Aligning cross-functional stakeholders around actionable roadmaps
- Remaining technically engaged in architecture, operational reviews, and engineering quality while empowering engineers on implementation
- Occasional travel to Fanatics offices for conferences, events, and team-building
Requirements:
- 3+ years managing one or more engineering teams
- 4+ years building highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Knowledge of broad design approaches and ability to deconstruct architectures for multi-team development
- Ability to scope projects with targeted dates aligned to business needs
- Skill in triaging features and negotiating with Product Management
- Strong communication of complex technical subjects to diverse audiences (engineers, leaders, non-technical stakeholders)
- Familiarity with Agile and SCRUM methodology
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong report writing and information synthesis abilities
- Thrives in entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environments with evolving priorities
- Team-first mentality and cross-functional collaboration in enterprise settings
Preferred qualifications:
- Start-up environment experience
- Strong mobile software engineering background
- Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform and/or Compose Multiplatform
- Passion for sports cards, collectibles, or live commerce
