Engineering Manager

About the role

FloSports is a world-class sports media company strategically positioned to be the essential destination for passionate sports fans, delighting them with live event coverage, breaking news, highlights, stats, rankings, and team and player profiles. We are growing Our Sports every day by continuing to invest in our ever-expanding ecosystem, which consists of over a dozen sport verticals and hundreds of streaming partners. FloSports is creating the home for college conferences/leagues and sports like grappling, hockey, track & field, racing, cheer, wrestling, and more, and we are looking for innovative and passionate people like you to help us!

THE ROLE:

As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading and growing a high-performing team of talented fullstack and backend software engineers. You’ll be relied upon to help drive the strategic vision of our applications alongside our Product Managers and Designers.

Additionally, you’ll have an impact on elevating the entire Product Engineering Department through close collaboration with others at the leadership level—driving inclusion, diversity, ownership, and autonomy.

We are open to fully remote candidates for this role with occasional travel to our Austin, TX office.

Our tech stack includes: TypeScript, HTML/CSS/JS, PHP, MySQL, Redis, Sphinx, Firebase, Git/GitHub, Docker, EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, DataDog, and PagerDuty

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Manage the performance, development and engagement of software engineers (4-6 direct reports) including hiring and growing of a high-performance team in shipping full stack web applications, features and services

- Drives execution by organizing team work, setting goals, and holding the team accountable, including monitoring and escalating team issues

- Ability to collaborate with Product Owners, designers, and QA on scheduling, planning, and sizing of functional specifications and software designs

- Actively work against bottlenecks impacting the team so they can make progress towards team and department goals

- Responsible for staying familiar with industry advances that may improve the team’s ability to execute more efficiently

- Responsible for the quality and technical output of the team

- Recruit, interview, and onboard new team members

- Help to foster a culture of growth, openness, and opportunities for your team, including regular collaboration with other Engineering Leaders to drive accountability, autonomy, inclusion, diversity, and performance across the department.

- Participate in code reviews, technical/architectural design and discussions, ensuring teams have healthy on-call escalations and incident management

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

- 4+ years’ experience doing software engineering in a hands-on capacity - front-end and back-end focus

- 2+ years management and / or team leadership experience in a software development role