Engineering Manager, Sportsbook - FBG (REMOTE)

The role

You will lead engineers within the Sportsbook Client team to power the Fanatics Sportsbook app. You will manage team execution, guide architectural decisions, and partner with product and design leadership to shape strategy.

What you will do

• Hire, retain, and develop engineers with regular feedback and career growth plans
• Lead team execution and delivery planning
• Partner with product, design, and technical leadership to align roadmaps
• Establish team norms, rituals, and operational rhythms
• Guide architectural decisions and technical quality standards
• Drive operational health, system reliability, and observability
• Optimize sprint planning, grooming, story pointing, and retrospectives
• Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production
• Participate in an on-call rotation to address urgent issues
• Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years of direct engineering management or technical leadership experience managing software engineers
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and growing engineering talent
• Strong technical foundation in mobile or client-service systems
• Track record of managing delivery plans and driving operational rigor in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Ability to communicate complex technical subjects to various audiences
• Familiarity with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
• Ability to work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment
• Bachelor’s degree, or professional certification, or a combination of education and experience

Nice to have

• Experience designing and building backend services using Spring Boot or similar Java frameworks
• Experience working in large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools
• Familiarity with functional programming paradigms and actor-based concurrency frameworks like Apache Pekko (or Akka)

About the company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics.