Engineering Manager

  • Underdog Sports
  • Verified

Job Description

About the role and why it's unique:

  • Lead a delivery team of talented and driven engineers to deliver features and solutions for the sports betting and fantasy services
  • Facilitate growth of the engineering talent on your team as they confront both technical and career issues by managing the team’s workstream, improving processes, and building a healthy and stimulating environment
  • Partner with the product lead for feature discovery, day-to-day product development, and delivery planning
  • Collaborate with other Engineering leads to help create technical roadmap for the organization
  • Support the design and development of a clean, well-structured, and maintainable code to help build and maintain our services
  • Build awareness of the best practice standards defined by communities of practice and ensure they are applied by your development team
  • Promote diversity by nurturing a collaborative and inclusive environment where all voices are heard
  • Develop a deep understanding of our business and architectural value, and help reduce operational complexity with technical solutions
  • Contribute to developing, maintaining, and reviewing the code for your team

Who you are:

  • You have a minimum of one year experience managing a software delivery team
  • Experience building highly scalable, available distributed systems to handle high traffic conditions with low latency
  • Strong background in building platform solutions
  • Excellent software architecture skills
  • Excellent communication, analytical, and problem solving skills with both engineers and product
  • High level of accountability, bias to action and a desire to empower individuals on the team to perform at their best

Even better if you have:

  • Experience leading a team in a remote-first environment
  • Experience working with product managers in gathering requirements, investigating technical needs and creating designs that fit within project timelines
  • Experience with regulated industries
  • Experience building Web, Android, or iOS applications
  • Proficiency working in GCP or other cloud infrastructures like AWS or Azure

Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $190,000 and $215,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.

What we can offer you:

  • Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
  • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • A $500 home office allowance
  • A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
  • 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

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