Scoreplay
Engineering Manager
Paris office, Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will lead a product engineering team to build and manage media infrastructure for sports organizations. You will focus on people management, technical direction, and improving team delivery speed.
What you will do
- Manage and grow the team through one-on-ones, feedback, and growth plans
- Handle performance and address underperformance in writing
- Hire and onboard new engineers with the talent acquisition team
- Own the quality of technical decisions, including reviews of designs, RFCs, and estimates
- Drive foundational work and balance it against client commitments
- Own team reliability, including incidents, debugging, postmortems, and on-call health
- Run team delivery in partnership with a product manager
- Improve team speed by cutting waste and automating processes
- Define AI delegation and set guardrails
- Work with clients' technical teams on integrations and enterprise workflows
Required qualifications
- 3+ years managing engineers as an Engineering Manager
- Solid run as a backend or platform engineer
- Experience managing underperformance to resolution
- Technical foundation in backend and distributed systems
- Experience leading a team through a significant architectural change while delivering for customers
- Initiative beyond scope to own problems across teams
- Clear written communication
- Builder instinct to build and simplify
- Proven ability to make a team measurably faster
- Ability to participate in on-call escalation
Nice to have
- Experience in a scale-up with 10–50 engineers
- Experience on video, media or storage-heavy products
Benefits
- Real scale with 145M+ minutes of video a month
- Engineering leaders are in the room for business decisions
- Short line to the Head of Engineering and the founders
- International team of 15+ nationalities
About the company
ScorePlay is the AI-powered media infrastructure for sports, built to automate content operations for sports organizations. The 65-person team is based between New York, Paris, and 10+ other countries.