Director of Engineering, Professional Services

Genius Sports; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Director of Engineering to lead a global team in delivering innovative digital solutions. This pivotal role emphasizes collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning, ensuring that cutting-edge products reach millions of users. You will manage projects, oversee software security, and foster a culture of wellbeing and growth within your team. Join a passionate group that values diversity and innovation, and be part of shaping the future of sports entertainment in a dynamic environment that encourages professional development and teamwork.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Skills Training

Social Events

Team Building Activities

Wellbeing Activities

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development with 3+ in leadership roles.
• Strong technical background with excellent communication skills.
• Experience with backend applications and cloud computing.

Responsibilities

• Manage global team and deliver complex digital products.
• Ensure security and operational costs of software.
• Maintain relationships with stakeholders and clients.

Skills

Leadership & Team Management

Backend Applications (PHP, Symfony)

ReactJS

Cloud Computing (AWS)

Relational Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform)

System Architecture

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree (Preferred)

Tools

AWS (EC2, RDS, Elasticache, WAF)

CDN Technologies (AWS CloudFront, Akamai, CloudFlare)

Material UI

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A Bit About Us

Genius Sports is at the forefront of the sports technology landscape, delivering real-time data and innovative digital solutions that connect sports, brands, and fans worldwide. From data capture to distribution, we are an integral partner to sports leagues and federations—including the NFL, English Premier League, FIBA, and NCAA—ensuring that critical data and cutting-edge products reach millions of users.

A Bit About Us

Genius Sports is at the forefront of the sports technology landscape, delivering real-time data and innovative digital solutions that connect sports, brands, and fans worldwide. From data capture to distribution, we are an integral partner to sports leagues and federations—including the NFL, English Premier League, FIBA, and NCAA—ensuring that critical data and cutting-edge products reach millions of users.

If you want to be part of a passionate global team shaping the future of sports entertainment, then come and join us. We foster an environment where creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning drive innovation for our partners and end-users.

The Role – Director of Engineering, Professional Services

As a Director of Engineering for our Professional Services Division, you will have the opportunity to manage a global team with direct reports in London, Australia, and oversight of a team in Europe. You will work to deliver complex digital products with an emphasis on working with data. This role will sit in our NYC office.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountability for the delivery of projects, product features and initiatives agreed by the commercial team.
• Stakeholder management and expectation setting, along with proactive engagement when things aren’t going to plan.
• Accountable for the Security of the software you produce and the operation environment it runs in
• Accountable for operational costs of your products and resource
• Identify, raise awareness, and find solutions for systemic problems in the product architecture and delivery team
• Identify, troubleshoot and at times fix and deploy solutions to support day-to-day project and business outcomes that fall within your time zone
• Product level solution discovery, supporting engineering and delivery leads to design appropriate solutions to business-problems.
• Maintain excellent relationships with key commercial and product stakeholders as well as clients, ensuring that technical priorities are visible and are considered to support the longer-term sustainability of your product area.
• Evolve and adapt the organizational assignments over time to ensure the team structure and individual roles and responsibilities support the business outcomes we are directly trying to influence
• Build strength and depth in the engineering team for your area and help ensure good decisions are being made with the right level of context and support inside the teams.
• Community and Wellbeing champion, building a culture where learning is valued and supported.
  
  

Qualifications

• 8+ years in the software development industry, including 3+ in leadership & team management roles
• Strong technical background combined with strong communication skills and the ability to remove the jargon and interface with stakeholders and clients
• Strong knowledge of backend applications, ideally PHP and Symfony framework
• Solid understanding of ReactJS and responsive single-page web applications
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, system architecture, resiliency and redundancy)
• Solid experience with Cloud Computing, ideally with AWS (EC2, RDS, Elasticache, WAF)
• Experience configuring CDN technologies (AWS CloudFront, Akamai, CloudFlare )
• Solid knowledge of Relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and how to monitor and optimize queries for high load applications
• Experience working with infrastructure-as-code (IAC) templates (CloudFormation, Terraform)
• Extensive experience integrating with 3rd party applications, e.g., Auth (OAuth/OIDC), analytics libraries, ad serving, data warehousing, data backups etc.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of other back-end technologies (Node.js, Kotlin / Spring Boot)
• Possess Redis experience;
• Experience theming and styling with Material UI and styled-components packages
• Experience integrating libraries to handle authentication, advertising and analytics
• Knowledge of OOP and functional programming
  
  

What’s in it for you?

As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer a host of softer benefits, including many social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.

The salary for this role is based on an annualized range of $200,000 - $250,000 USD. This role will also be eligible to take part in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan.

How We Work

Genius will be returning to the office 4 days a week, and this will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively face-to-face with colleagues in our New York office.

Our employees are empowered to stretch the boundaries of what’s achievable, always reaching further and pushing the edges to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organization and continue to invest in our highly talented and diverse team of Geniuses.

Genius Sports Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workforce bring to our business, our customers and our staff. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of age, different abilities or disability, gender re-assignment, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (and any other applicable status). Please let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Spectator Sports, Software Development, and Information Services

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