Engineering Manager (Fan Experience)

Gametime; New York (NY); Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

Equity ownership

Remote First

Remote Work stipend

Paid Parental Leave

Gametime Credit

Team meetups

Job summary

Gametime's Fan Experience team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead full-stack and front-end engineers building fans’ ticket discovery, decision, and purchase experiences across iOS, Android, mobile web, and desktop.

You will work closely with a Product Manager and Designer, actively code, and raise velocity and quality through frontier models and AI tooling while balancing speed, quality, and technical debt.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in engineering, including several as a manager
• Experience leading full-stack and/or frontend engineering teams
• Strong understanding of modern frontend stacks (React/React Native) and backend services
• Familiarity with SQL/analytics to diagnose funnel and feature performance
• Data-driven prioritization and technical trade-offs
• Hands-on engineering manager, comfortable writing/reviewing code

Responsibilities

• Lead and own the engineering roadmap for fan experience features
• Spend significant time coding alongside your team
• Set standards for AI tooling and frontier models to improve velocity and quality
• Partner with Product and Design as a peer with opinions on what should be built
• Mentor engineers and raise the talent bar across teams
• Collaborate cross-team to improve marketplace systems

Skills

Full-stack leadership

React/React Native

APIs/Backend

Analytics/SQL

AI tooling/ frontier models

People management

Cross-functional partnership

Tools

React

React Native

APIs

Job description

• Gametime's Fan Experience team owns how fans discover, decide on, and purchase tickets on the demand side of our marketplace — the core experience for millions of ticket buyers across iOS, Android, mobile web, and desktop. This Engineering Manager will lead a team of full-stack and front-end engineers building the features and value propositions that define how fans experience Gametime, partnering day-to-day with a dedicated Product Manager and Designer to move quickly from idea to production
• This is a hands-on role. You'll spend real time on the keyboard alongside your team, and you'll set the standard for how the team uses frontier models, AI coding tools, and new harnesses to generate, review, test, and monitor code — raising both velocity and quality as the bar for what's possible keeps moving. This role reports to the VP of Product
• Hands-on leadership: spend a meaningful share of your time actually coding alongside the team — you lead from the front, not just from the roadmap
• AI-forward engineering: set the standard for how your team uses frontier models, AI coding agents/harnesses, and new tooling to generate, review, test, and monitor code — the primary lever for increasing velocity and quality (i.e. fewer bugs, more stable services, cohesive system architecture) together, not as a trade-off
• Cross-functional partnership: partner closely, day-to-day, with a dedicated PM and Designer as a trio; bring a real point of view on what the product and features should be, not just how to build them
• Velocity investment: partner with product to identify and invest in what will let the team move faster over time — tooling, domain foundation design, tech debt paydown, and better use of AI in the development loop
• Risk partnership: partner with product to surface the risks in what's being proposed, and bring concrete recommendations and proposals for how to mitigate and eliminate those risks over time
• Delivery: own the engineering roadmap and execution plan for your area, balancing speed, quality, and technical debt
• Mentorship and talent bar: mentor engineers toward their next career level, hold a high talent bar for hiring and performance on your team, and help level up talent on other teams too
• Cross-team technical leadership: partner with engineering leads and counterparts on other teams to improve the marketplace more broadly, technically, over time
• A team and roadmap tied directly to fan-facing feature velocity, quality, and business outcomes on the demand side of our marketplace

Benefits

• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Equity: An ownership stake in the company you'll be helping to build
• Flexible PTO: 'Take what you need' vacation policy (we actually mean it)
• Remote First: Fully remote company
• Remote Work stipend: Monthly stipend to offset the cost of internet and any home office updates
• Paid Parental Leave: Peace of mind for parents to dedicate their time to the care of their new child
• Gametime Credit: Monthly Gametime credit to experience the product for yourself
• Team Celebrations: Company meetups and events in different cities across the US

A track record of shipping consumer-facing product features that moved measurable business outcomesExperience leading full-stack teams with end-to-end ownership of consumer-facing web and mobile products, backend services, and APIs in a high-traffic marketplace or e-commerce environmentStrong understanding of modern front-end stacks (e.g., React and React Native), backend services, APIs, and full-stack architecture, with the technical depth to lead teams across the stackFamiliarity with SQL/analytics to diagnose funnel and feature performanceA data-driven approach to prioritization and technical trade-offsExperience managing full-stack and/or front-end engineering teams, with meaningful people-management experience (typically 5+ years in engineering, including several as a manager)Strong cross-functional partnership skills, comfortable operating as a true peer to Product and Design, with your own opinions on what should be built, not just executing their specsA hands-on engineering manager, comfortable spending real time writing and reviewing code alongside your team, not just directing from aboveExperience partnering with Product and Design in a fast-moving, iterative environment (feature flags, A/B testing, rapid experimentation)Direct experience using frontier models, AI coding agents/harnesses, and modern tooling to meaningfully improve engineering velocity and quality, and a point of view on where this is headedExperience in consumer marketplaces or high-intent, high-conversion consumer appsA track record of building or championing internal tooling/platform investments that compounded team velocity over time