Engineering Manager: Scale a World‑Class Sports Tech Team

ScorePlay; Paris; On-site; EUR 69,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

ScorePlay is the AI-powered media infrastructure for sports, built to automate the content operations behind the world's biggest sports organizations. We work with 300+ leagues, competitions, teams and broadcasters, including Ligue 1 and Premier League clubs, NBA and NFL teams, and the Tour de France.

We’re entering a key phase: scaling our product and engineering organization to support our rapid growth. As Engineering Manager, you’ll partner with Seb (Head of Engineering) to shape our

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, including at least 2–3 years leading people (Tech Lead or EM).
• Strong technical foundation in backend systems, ideally Go, but we value architectural depth over language expertise.
• Experience mentoring developers, running 1:1s, and improving team velocity and code quality.
• Skilled at balancing technical depth with empathy and communication.
• Excited to still be hands‑on at a strategic level, reviewing, unblocking, prototyping, without being in the sprint delivery loop.
• Experienced in a high-growth startup or scale‑up (10–50 engineers) where process and structure were being built.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of 4–6 engineers and shape their growth.
• Own and continuously improve delivery rhythm from scoping to QA for your feature team.
• Translate product goals into technical plans with PMs and Design, and unblock blockers.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and customers to ensure feasible, scalable work.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Mentoring / people leadership

System design

Code reviews

Tools

Go

Job description

ScorePlay is the AI-powered media infrastructure for sports, built to automate the content operations behind the world's biggest sports organizations. We work with 300+ leagues, competitions, teams and broadcasters, including Ligue 1 and Premier League clubs, NBA and NFL teams, and the Tour de France.

We’re entering a key phase: scaling our product and engineering organization to support our rapid growth. As Engineering Manager, you’ll partner with Seb (Head of Engineering) to shape our