Engineering Manager, Sportsbook - FBG

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote within United States

Occasional travel for office visits or

Bonus potential

Job summary

Fanatics Betting and Gaming is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Sportsbook team in the United States. You will lead an engineering group delivering live markets, events, and real-time data, aligning roadmaps with business priorities and ensuring reliable delivery.

You will mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and own operational excellence, including on-call incident response and continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in direct engineering management or technical leadership overseeing software engineers.
• Experience recruiting, mentoring, and developing engineering talent in high-performing teams.
• Strong foundation in mobile or client-service systems and architectural judgment.
• Delivery planning, unblocking engineers, and maintaining quality in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Familiarity with Agile software development and Scrum methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to lead in a fast-growing environment with changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers with clear career plans.
• Lead team planning,Ownership, and delivery against commitments.
• Collaborate with product/design/leadership to balance features and tech debt.
• Establish team practices and learning culture with psychological safety.
• Provide technical guidance and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Promote reliability, observability, and incident management across apps/services.
• Improve Agile delivery practices: sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimations, retrospectives.
• Respond to production incidents and changing priorities with clear processes.

Skills

Team leadership

Recruitment

Mentoring

Communication

Agile/Scrum

Systems design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Spring Boot

AKKA

Pekko

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Observability tools

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager, Sportsbook - FBG based in the United States.

This is an opportunity to lead a talented engineering team responsible for shaping and enhancing a high-performance digital sportsbook experience. You will oversee the development of client-side capabilities that bring live markets, sporting events, player statistics, and real-time data to customers. Working closely with product, design, and technical leaders, you will translate business priorities into effective engineering roadmaps and reliable delivery. You will foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement while supporting engineers' professional growth. The role combines people leadership, technical guidance, and operational ownership in a fast-paced, evolving environment. You will help build scalable, resilient products using modern technologies, including Kotlin and Kotlin Multiplatform.

Accountabilities

• Recruit, retain, mentor, and develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, and clear career development plans.
• Lead team planning and execution, establishing clear ownership, managing risks, removing blockers, and ensuring delivery against business commitments.
• Collaborate with product, design, and technical leadership to prioritize initiatives, align roadmaps with business objectives, and balance new features with technical debt.
• Establish effective team practices, communication rhythms, and operational processes that encourage psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Provide technical guidance and contribute to architectural decisions, helping engineers evaluate design choices, maintain high standards, and build maintainable systems.
• Promote operational excellence across team-owned applications and services, with a focus on reliability, observability, resilience, and incident management.
• Improve Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, and retrospectives, while monitoring delivery performance.
• Help the team respond effectively to production incidents, changing priorities, and high-pressure situations through clear processes and a continuous-learning mindset.
• Contribute to developing, testing, documenting, and deploying high-quality software into production.
• Build a strong understanding of the sportsbook industry, product capabilities, and roadmap to inform technology decisions.
• Work with internal stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve products, engineering processes, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, troubleshooting urgent application issues outside regular business hours and supporting production stability.
• Escalate project risks and delivery roadblocks when necessary.
• Be available for occasional travel to company offices, conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including 2 or more years in direct engineering management or technical leadership roles overseeing software engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, mentor, and develop engineering talent while building inclusive, high-performing teams.
• Strong technical foundation in mobile or client-service systems, with the architectural knowledge needed to assess designs, guide trade-offs, and promote sound engineering practices.
• Experience managing delivery plans, unblocking engineers, and maintaining high standards of quality and operational discipline in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Familiarity with Agile software development and Scrum methodologies.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to engineers, technical leaders, business stakeholders, and non-technical audiences.
• A collaborative, team-oriented mindset and a proactive approach to solving problems and improving how work gets done.
• Ability to adapt and lead effectively in a high-growth environment where priorities can change and decisions need to be made quickly.
• Experience working across functions within an enterprise environment.
• A bachelor's degree, relevant professional certification, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing backend services using Spring Boot or comparable Java frameworks.
• Background working with large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.
• Familiarity with functional programming concepts and actor-based concurrency frameworks such as Apache Pekko or Akka.

Candidates who meet many, but not necessarily all, of the qualifications are encouraged to apply.

Benefits

• Salary range: $144,400-$237,500 USD in base compensation. The applicable range depends on the employee's geographic compensation zone and confirmed location.
• Additional bonus compensation is referenced in the posting; specific bonus details are not provided.
• Benefits information is available through the partner company's benefits resource: https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
• The role is advertised as remote within the United States.
• Occasional travel may be required for office visits, conferences, meetings, events, and team-building activities.
• Depending on the role and location, the interview and onboarding process may include in-person activities, including onsite interviews or a multi-day cultural immersion experience in New York City. Specific requirements will be confirmed by the recruiting team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!