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Salary: USD 144,000 - 235,000 / annual
Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform serving over 100 million sports fans through commerce, collectibles, and betting/gaming. The company operates the Fanatics App, a unified mobile platform integrating free-to-play games, live events, e-commerce, and new product experiences.
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead one or more engineering teams delivering high-quality software for customer-facing products and internal platforms. You will provide technical leadership, build and scale teams, and drive reliable execution through clear objectives and data-driven metrics.
Key responsibilities include:
- Provide technical leadership and expertise within your engineering vertical
- Build and lead engineering teams while establishing and adhering to best practices
- Clarify technical requirements, negotiate priorities, and manage projects through daily scrum activities
- Identify and escalate blockers to accelerate delivery
- Collaborate with product and design partners to create ambitious yet achievable roadmaps
- Drive predictable team execution using KPIs and continuous improvement
- Communicate status, metrics, and updates to executive stakeholders
- Determine where to simplify, optimize, or extend solutions
- Recruit, assess, and onboard diverse engineering talent
- Occasional travel to Fanatics offices for conferences, events, and team-building
Required Qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience managing an engineering team
- 4+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Knowledge of broad range of design approaches and ability to deconstruct architecture for multi-team development
- Ability to scope projects with targeted dates aligned to business needs
- Skill in prioritizing features and negotiating with Product Management
- Strong communication of complex technical subjects to diverse audiences (engineers, leaders, non-technical stakeholders)
- Familiarity with Agile software delivery 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 with willingness to do what it takes
- Ability to work effectively cross-functionally in enterprise environments
Preferred Qualifications:
- Start-up environment experience
- Strong mobile software engineering background
- Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform and/or Compose Multiplatform
