Software Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Provide leadership and technical knowledge within the engineering domain.

• Build and manage one or more teams that deliver software while adhering to and enhancing engineering best practices.

• Clarify technical requirements, negotiate priorities, and oversee projects to ensure timely delivery by leading daily scrum activities.

• Remove or escalate obstacles to expedite delivery progress.

• Collaborate with product and design partners to develop an ambitious yet achievable roadmap for executives and stakeholders.

• Foster reliable and predictable team execution through clear objectives, data and KPIs, transparency, and continuous improvement.

• Provide KPIs, status updates, and metrics reports to executives and key stakeholders.

• Identify opportunities to simplify, optimize, or enhance solutions for the best results.

• Recruit, evaluate, and onboard a diverse array of engineers.

• Lead engineering efforts for Fanatics App products, which include free-to-play games, live events, e-commerce, and new sports-platform experiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 1 year of experience managing an engineering team.

• More than 4 years of experience in building highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems.

• Knowledge of a wide range of design methodologies and the ability to deconstruct an architecture for development by various teams.

• Capability to scope projects with targeted deadlines to align with business objectives.

• Skill in identifying essential, triageable, or omittable features and negotiating with Product Management.

• Proficiency in communicating complex technical topics to engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, as well as non-technical functional leaders.

• Familiarity with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Strong report writing skills and the capacity to gather, evaluate, analyze, and logically organize information.

• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and rapid decision-making.

• Team-oriented mindset and a willingness to do whatever it takes to accomplish goals.

• Capability to work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment.

• Preferred: experience in a start-up environment.

• Preferred: solid background in mobile software engineering.

• Preferred: experience with Kotlin Multiplatform and/or Compose Multiplatform.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus.

• Comprehensive full-time employment benefits.

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

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.