Senior Software Engineering Manager
Fanatics · USA
About this role
**About Fanatics** Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform—igniting the passions of sports fans and maximizing the presence and reach of our hundreds of sports partners worldwide. Through Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, fans can **Buy, Collect, and Bet**. We support a global fan base of 100M+ fans, a partner network of ~900 sports properties, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, 200 exclusive athletes, and 2,000+ retail locations (including Lids). With 22,000+ employees, we’re committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience. --- **Role Overview** As a **Senior Engineering Manager**, you’ll be a technical leader who can **grow and scale engineering teams** to deliver business results and ship **high-quality software** for customer-facing products and internal platforms. We own the **Fanatics App**—the mobile app that brings together Free to Play games, live events, ecommerce, and new product experiences to deliver a best-in-class sports platform. --- **What You’ll Do** - Provide leadership and technical expertise within your engineering vertical - Build and lead one or more teams to deliver software while contributing to engineering best practices - Manage, coach, and develop engineers across **mobile and backend** platforms - Clarify technical requirements, negotiate priorities, and lead project execution (including daily scrum activities) - Partner with product and design to create an ambitious, achievable roadmap for executives and stakeholders - Drive reliable, predictable execution using clear objectives, data, and KPIs - Champion continuous improvement across engineering practices and systems - Drive adoption of **AI-assisted engineering workflows** (tooling, documentation, testing support, code review augmentation, and developer enablement) - Provide clear updates to executive audiences and stakeholders (KPIs, status, metrics) - Help recruit, assess, and onboard a diverse group of engineers - Align stakeholders across Fanatics to turn diverging ideas into an actionable roadmap - Stay technically engaged in architecture discussions, operational reviews, development workflows, and engineering quality - Empower engineers to own implementation details - Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building --- **Required Qualifications** - 3+ years managing one or more engineering teams - 4+ years building highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems - Knowledge of broad design approaches; able to deconstruct architectures across teams - Ability to scope projects with targeted dates to meet business needs - Strong product partnership skills: triage features, negotiate priorities with Product Management - Ability to communicate complex technical topics to varied audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing/ops, non-technical leaders) - Familiarity with Agile delivery and **Scrum** - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Solid report writing skills (gather, evaluate, analyze, and structure information clearly) - Thrives in a hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve quickly - Team-first mindset and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done - Strong cross-functional collaboration in an enterprise environment --- **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience in a start-up environment - Strong mobile software engineering background - Experience with **Kotlin Multiplatform** and/or **Compose Multi
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