Manager, Software Engineering

About the role

Rush Street Interactive (NYSE: RSI) is a market leader in online casino and sports betting, currently operating real-money gaming with our brands: BetRivers.com, PlaySugarHouse.com, and RushBet.co. We’re building bridges between online, social and land-based gaming businesses to create amazing, integrated experiences that keep players in the game.

The Manager, Software Engineering is responsible for leading a team of engineers while driving delivery, quality, and operational excellence across cross-functional initiatives. This role combines people and technical leadership as well as execution accountability. Managers build high-performing teams, develop engineering talent, identify and manage risks, collaborate across functions, and ensure the reliable delivery of business outcomes. Managers balance team health, delivery execution, quality, and continuous improvement while fostering an inclusive, respectful work environment.

What You'll Do:

- Build and maintain a high-performing engineering team through coaching, feedback, performance management, and development. Lead or contribute to cross-functional delivery teams, ensuring work is effectively planned, executed, and communicated.

- Drive accountability for quality, operational excellence, incident follow-up, and continuous improvement.

- Establish visibility into team performance through effective planning, metrics, status tracking, and stakeholder communication.

- Proactively identify and manage delivery risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and operational challenges.

- Foster collaboration across engineering, product, and other business functions to achieve shared business objectives.

- Promote engineering standards, scalable solutions, and systems-thinking approaches to problem solving, and organizational effectiveness.

- Reinforce a culture of inclusion, respect, accountability, and compliance with company policies and applicable laws.

- Perform effective resource management by maintaining a clear understanding of team capacity, current work, and planned future work.

- Demonstrate effective resource and capacity planning by proactively assessing current and future team workload, aligning staffing and hiring plans with business priorities.

Technical Leadership Competencies:

- Demonstrate sufficient technical depth to understand the systems, services, and dependencies owned by the team.

- Participate effectively in technical discussions, design reviews, architecture conversations, and pull request reviews.

- Understand and communicate trade-offs involving performance, scalability, maintainability, reliability, complexity, and cost.

- Understand system architecture, data flows, APIs, dependencies, and operational considerations within the team's domain.

- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural concerns and escalate/address appropriately.