Engineering Manager, Sportsbook - FBG

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote within US

Bonus potential

Travel opportunities

Onsite interviews NYC

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a senior engineering leader to recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing team delivering software in a remote US setting.

You will collaborate with product, design, and leadership to guide roadmaps, enforce best practices, and drive agile delivery while maintaining system reliability and incident readiness.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with 2+ years in engineering management or leadership roles.
• Proven ability to recruit, mentor, and develop engineering talent in high-performing teams.
• Strong technical foundation in mobile or client-service systems and architectural judgment.
• Experience delivering plans, unblocking engineers, and maintaining quality in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Familiarity with Agile software development and Scrum methodologies.
• Strong communication skills across engineers, leaders, stakeholders, and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative, proactive problem-solver in a high-growth setting.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution, establish ownership, manage risks, and ensure delivery against commitments.
• Provide technical guidance and contribute to architectural decisions, ensuring maintainable systems.
• Promote reliability, observability, resilience, and incident management across team-owned apps and services.
• Improve Agile delivery practices: sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to align roadmaps with business objectives.
• Participate in on-call rotation and travel occasionally for office visits, conferences, and team events.
• Develop, test, document, and deploy high-quality software into production.
• Build understanding of sportsbook domain to inform technology choices.

Skills

Leadership

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Spring Boot

AWS

CI/CD

Akka/Pekko

Observability tools

Job description

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.