Engineering Manager

Entertainment Solutions Group; Huntsville (AL); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Generous PTO

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Entertainment Solutions Group in Huntsville, AL seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a technology team, translating product wishes into robust Java services and cutting through Rust dependencies. You’ll own delivery, collaborate across functions, and drive uptime in a hybrid office environment.

Qualified candidates bring 7+ years of leadership, a track record of delivering, and a readiness to manage risk while guiding the team through a scaling, fast-paced tech stack.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in engineering or software leadership.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a manager capacity.
• Ability to translate fuzzy product wishes into shippable Java services and manage risk.

Responsibilities

• Untangle the Rust dependency knots that have slowed Huntsville releases for months
• Stitch Creativity events into the Ruby on Rails pipeline feeding Entertainment Solutions Group's technology reports
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from Entertainment Solutions Group stakeholders into shippable Java services
• Refactor the technology module Entertainment Solutions Group has been afraid to touch
• Defend Entertainment Solutions Group uptime through the 2 a.m. Huntsville pages nobody volunteers for
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services
• Ship incremental improvements to Entertainment Solutions Group's Huntsville platform on a regular cadence
• Decide when to buy Java versus build it for Entertainment Solutions Group's Huntsville, AL stack

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Ownership

Risk awareness

Customer insight

Tools

Rust

Ruby on Rails

Java

RabbitMQ

Job description

Somewhere between the whiteboard sketch and the green deploy badge is the Engineering Manager role we're opening in Huntsville, AL. The bargain is plain — your 6 years and RabbitMQ for $96,000 - $141,000, plus a technology team that hands over the reins.

Key Responsibilities

• Untangle the Rust dependency knots that have slowed Huntsville releases for months
• Stitch Creativity events into the Ruby on Rails pipeline feeding Entertainment Solutions Group's technology reports
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from Entertainment Solutions Group stakeholders into shippable Java services
• Refactor the technology module Entertainment Solutions Group has been afraid to touch
• Defend Entertainment Solutions Group uptime through the 2 a.m. Huntsville pages nobody volunteers for
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services
• Ship incremental improvements to Entertainment Solutions Group's Huntsville platform on a regular cadence
• Decide when to buy Java versus build it for Entertainment Solutions Group's Huntsville, AL stack

What You'll Bring

• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• At least 7 years of standing behind your own estimates
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a manager capacity
• Real curiosity about why Entertainment Solutions Group customers do what they do
• The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own

Recognized for our high-energy work in technology, Entertainment Solutions Group continues to grow its presence across AL. At Entertainment Solutions Group the org chart is flat enough that good ideas don't need a passport to travel.

Expect $96,000 - $141,000, a hybrid Huntsville office, generous PTO, and leaders who treat your development as a real priority.

Live and listening, the hiring team reads new applications as they arrive.

We built this technology team on people who said yes.