Director of Engineering, Professional Services

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

Job summary

Join a dynamic and rapidly growing sports technology company as a Director of Engineering. In this pivotal role, you will lead a global team and oversee the delivery of innovative digital products that connect sports, brands, and fans. You will drive project accountability, manage stakeholder expectations, and ensure the security and operational efficiency of software solutions. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of sports entertainment while fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment. With a competitive salary range and a host of benefits, this role is perfect for ambitious leaders ready to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Skills Training

Social Events

Team Building Events

Sports Tournaments

Charity Days

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

• Accountable for project delivery and stakeholder management.
• Identify and solve systemic problems in product architecture.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Communication Skills

Backend Development (PHP)

Symfony Framework

ReactJS

Cloud Computing (AWS)

Relational Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

Integration with 3rd Party Applications

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS (EC2, RDS, Elasticache, WAF)

CloudFormation

Terraform

CDN Technologies (AWS CloudFront, Akamai, CloudFlare)

Job description

A bit about us:

Do you want to join one of the world’s fastest growing sports technology companies? Genius Sports is at the epicentre of the global network connecting sports, brands and fans through official live data. Our mission is simple. We champion a more sustainable sports data ecosystem that benefits all parties.

We’re looking for enthusiastic and ambitious people to join our talented team.

If you see yourself becoming part of a global family building the future of sports entertainment together, then come and grow with us. We put trust in our people to deliver the difference for our clients around the world. It’s why many of the world’s largest leagues & federations such as the NFL, English Premier League, FIBA and NCAA choose to work with Genius Sports.

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.