Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead engineering teams building and scaling customer-facing products and internal platforms. The role focuses on delivering high-quality software for the Fanatics App, setting technical direction, and driving reliable team execution in partnership with product and design.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and technical expertise within your engineering vertical
- Build and lead one or more teams that will deliver software while adhering (and contributing) to engineering best practices
- Clarify technical requirements, negotiate priorities, and manage projects to deliver on time by leading daily scrum activities
- Clears or escalates blockers to accelerate progress of delivery
- Work closely with your product and design partners to create an ambitious, yet achievable roadmap that can be communicated to executives and stakeholders
- Drive reliable and predictable team execution by setting clear objectives, using data and KPIs to drive transparency, and champion continuous improvement across engineering practices and systems
- Provide clear updates (KPIs, status, metrics) to an executive audience and key stakeholders
- Determine where to simplify, optimize, or extend solutions for the best outcomes
- Help to recruit, assess and onboard a diverse group of talented engineers
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Skills
- 1+ years of experience managing an engineering team
- 4+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems
- You have knowledge of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different teams
- Able to scope a project and with targeted dates to ensure they meet business needs
- Knows how to discern which features are essential, can be triaged, or omitted and works to negotiate with Product Management
- Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders)
- Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Solid report writing skills with the ability to gather, evaluate and analyze relevant information while structuring material in a logical and coherent manner
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly
- Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
- Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment
- Experience working in a start-up environment
- Strong mobile software engineering background
- Experience working with Kotlin Multiplatform and/or Compose Multiplatform
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