Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead and grow a team of 4-6 fullstack and backend software engineers. You will drive strategic vision for applications alongside Product Managers and Designers.

What you will do

• Manage performance, development, and engagement of 4-6 direct reports
• Hire and grow a high-performance team shipping full stack web applications, features and services
• Drive execution by organizing team work, setting goals, and holding the team accountable
• Collaborate with Product Owners, designers, and QA on scheduling, planning, and sizing
• Work against bottlenecks impacting the team
• Stay familiar with industry advances to improve execution efficiency
• Ensure the quality and technical output of the team
• Recruit, interview, and onboard new team members
• Foster a culture of growth, openness, and opportunities
• Participate in code reviews, technical/architectural design, and incident management

Required qualifications

• 4+ years experience doing software engineering in a hands-on capacity with front-end and back-end focus
• 2+ years management and/or team leadership experience in a software development role
• Experience leading a team of software engineers, including hiring and performance management
• Demonstrated ability to focus on process improvements and key performance metrics
• Able to collaborate effectively and act as a partner in product decisions
• Ability to understand systems and software architecture for high traffic scalable web and distributed systems
• Proficiency in Front-End and Backend-End technologies
• Proficient in consuming and building RESTful APIs with JSON and CRUD
• High level proficiency with CI/CD processes

Nice to have

• Experience with containerization
• Experience with large data sets
• Believing and encouraging all developers to own the systems and be accountable to their reliability
• Understanding that you are also product and a partner in the setup
• Caring about the business outcomes and the customers
• Owning the how and supporting planning, estimation, and project management

Benefits

• Flexibility at work
• All-hands events hosted annually in Austin, Texas
• Annual equity awards for all top performers
• Competitive and comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
• Company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance
• Generous 401(K) company match vested immediately
• Progressive parental leave policies
• Flexible paid time off
• Hack-a-thons and team-building and social events
• Company donation to youth teams and leagues that employees coach
• Stocked snack bar, catered lunch and breakfast tacos every week

About the company

FloSports is a sports media company providing live event coverage, news, highlights, stats, rankings, and profiles. It consists of over a dozen sport verticals and hundreds of streaming partners.