Fanatics, Inc.

Director, Software Engineering

Fanatics, Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $220,000 - $290,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Provide leadership and technical expertise within your engineering vertical
  • Build and lead multiple teams that will deliver software while adhering (and contributing) to engineering best practices. These teams will evolve/create architecture and/or product solutions that are exemplary in terms of their robustness, stability, scalability, and cost effectiveness.
  • Ensure the right people are in the right positions, actively building succession plans and creating leadership opportunities
  • Make business cases for communications externally (ex, blogs, whitepapers, patents), speaking at public events on behalf of Fanatics
  • Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across all of Fanatics, and collaborate with leaders to prioritize technical efforts and provide input on product features and capabilities
  • Drive predictability and reliability through Operational Excellence and create clear objectives and transparency through the use of data and KPIs.
  • Provide clear updates (KPIs, status, metrics) to an executive audience and key stakeholders
  • Help identify technology gaps and opportunities, taking ownership for the technology roadmap within the space and ensuring appropriate engineering investments in the underlying platform
  • Effectively balance opportunity vs. resources vs. sustainability
  • Set targets for developer experience metrics
  • Drive best practices across your teams
  • Determine where to simplify, optimize, or extend solutions for the best outcomes
  • Drive resolution to architecture contention
  • Drive discussions around business and technology decisions, and participates in strategic initiatives with 1 to 3 year time horizons
  • Mentor leaders on how to develop talent within their teams
  • Help to recruit, assess and onboard a diverse group of talented engineers
  • Develop solid understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
  • Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development
  • Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, 2+ managing other engineering managers
  • You are an expert technologist with experience in managing multiple teams that can influence and defend our quality posture
  • You have knowledge of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different teams
  • Demonstrated experience determining when to make a case for resourcing (and when not to)
  • 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
  • Excellent influencing and problem resolution skills
  • Solid report writing skills with the ability to gather, evaluate and analyze relevant information while structuring material in a logical and coherent manner.
  • You have an agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment
  • 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
software developmentarchitecture designAgile methodologySCRUMdata analysisKPI developmenttechnical leadershipteam managementproblem solvingreport writing
Soft skills
communicationinfluencingmentoringanalytical thinkingcollaborationentrepreneurial mindsetadaptabilityteamworkstrategic thinkingrelationship building