Engineering Manager, Sportsbook

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering team within the Sportsbook Client division that powers the Fanatics Sportsbook app.

• Attract, retain, and nurture engineers through constructive feedback, coaching, and career development plans.

• Oversee team execution and delivery planning with defined ownership and proactive risk management.

• Collaborate with product, design, and technical leadership on priorities, roadmaps, business strategies, and addressing technical debt.

• Create team norms, rituals, and operational rhythms that foster high performance, psychological safety, continuous learning, and collaboration.

• Direct architectural decisions and uphold technical quality standards as both a technical advisor and player-coach.

• Ensure operational health, reliability, and observability for services and applications managed by the team.

• Engage in incident escalation management and conduct post-incident reviews.

• Streamline sprint planning, grooming, story pointing, and retrospectives.

• Enhance observability, reliability, resilience, maintainability, and production incident responses.

• Develop, test, document, and deploy software into production environments.

• Collaborate with product, design, and internal stakeholders on technology-related decisions.

• Participate in an on-call rotation and resolve application-related issues.

• Escalate tasks or projects that face obstacles.

• Build familiarity with the industry, products, features, and roadmap.

• Occasionally travel for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in software engineering.

• At least 2 years of direct experience in engineering management or technical leadership overseeing software engineers.

• Proven track record in hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering talent while building high-performing, inclusive teams.

• Strong technical foundation in mobile or client-service systems.

• Architectural knowledge to assess designs, guide trade-offs, and promote engineering best practices.

• Experience managing delivery plans, removing obstacles for engineers, and enforcing operational rigor and quality in an Agile/Scrum setting.

• Familiarity with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodologies.

• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally within an enterprise environment.

• A Bachelor’s degree, or professional certification, or a combination of education and experience.

• Preferred: experience with Spring Boot or similar Java frameworks.

• Preferred: experience with large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures.

• Preferred: exposure to AWS or GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.

• Preferred: familiarity with functional programming and actor-based concurrency frameworks such as Apache Pekko or Akka.

• Willingness to travel occasionally to Fanatics offices and other locations.

• Interview and onboarding processes may include in-person components depending on the role and location.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment compensation includes base salary and a bonus.

• Benefits information can be found at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/.

• Potential opportunities for in-person cultural immersion through Launching into Better: LIVE for full-time, non-seasonal hires.