Engineering Manager

FloSports has led the way in establishing a world-class digital streaming experience for millions of fans, families and athletes of over 25 different underserved sports. Imagine creating a digital platform that unites the casual fan with the most dedicated spectator, both experiencing thrilling live events from around the world with interactive features, real time analytics, powerful broadcast technology and more. Combine that with our unique original sports content ranging from breaking news and expert commentary to feature films, documentaries and multi-episodic series. That’s what FloSports is all about. We have successfully revolutionized the global sports media industry- the result of creating a diverse team of technologists and die-hard wrestlers, creators and devoted cheerleading experts, designers and hockey enthusiasts, communicators and motorsport fanatics, producers and casual sports fans… united by a shared passion to delight the underrepresented communities we serve. We are creating a home for underserved sports and we’re looking for people like you to help us!

THE ROLE:

FloSports is currently seeking an Engineering Manager to join our Event Management & Acquisition team, focusing on our MileSplit property. Our team focuses on developing solutions that allow sports organizations to plan, run and stream their sporting events while collecting and leveraging valuable sport data to build an immersive experience for participants and fans.

You will work on improving our event management platform for athletes, coaches, and meet managers while enhancing the user experience by building products fans can use to immerse themselves in Track & Field. 

Our mission is to galvanize the track and field community by creating a holistic product where data transfers seamlessly between meet registration, meet management, live results, and the core milesplit website. 

As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading and growing a high-performing team of talented fullstack and backend software engineers. You’ll be relied upon to help drive the strategic vision of our applications alongside our Product Managers and Designers. Additionally, you’ll have an impact on elevating the entire Product Engineering Department through close collaboration with others at the leadership level—driving inclusion, diversity, ownership, and autonomy. 

We are open to fully remote candidates for this role with occasional travel to our Austin, TX office.

Our tech stack includes: TypeScript, HTML/CSS/JS, PHP, MySQL, Redis, Sphinx, Firebase, Git/GitHub, Docker, EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, DataDog, and PagerDuty

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the performance, development and engagement of software engineers (4-6 direct reports) including hiring and growing of a high-performance team in shipping full stack web applications, features and services that support the overall MileSplit product experience for our users.

• Drives execution by organizing team work, setting goals, and holding the team accountable, including monitoring and escalating team issues

• Ability to collaborate with Product Owners, designers, and QA on scheduling, planning, and sizing of functional specifications and software designs

• Actively work against bottlenecks impacting the team so they can make progress towards team and department goals

• Responsible for staying familiar with industry advances that may improve the team’s ability to execute more efficiently

• Responsible for the quality and technical output of the team

• Recruit, interview, and onboard new team members

• Help to foster a culture of growth, openness, and opportunities for your team, including regular collaboration with other Engineering Leaders to drive accountability, autonomy, inclusion, diversity, and performance across the department.

• Participate in code reviews, technical/architectural design and discussions, ensuring teams have healthy on-call escalations and incident management 

BONUS POINTS: 

• Believing and encouraging all developers to own the systems and be accountable to their reliability will product the best developer satisfaction and user outcomes.

• Understanding that you’re also “product”, you are a partner in this setup. You own the product and outcomes just as much as the PM, the designer folks do

• Caring about the business outcomes and the customers.

• Owning the how. Lean in and support the planning, estimation, and project management process along with your product counterpart.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4+ years’ experience doing software engineering in a hands-on capacity - front-end and back-end focus 

• 2+ years management and / or team leadership experience in a software development role

• Experience in leading a team of software engineer, helping them improve their skills, grow their careers, hiring and performance management

• Demonstrated ability to focus on process improvements and key performance metrics that add to the overall effectiveness of the development team

• Able to collaborate effectively and act as a partner in product decisions

• Ability to understand systems and software architecture similar to a Sr. level engineer with considerations towards high traffic scalable web and distributed systems with an eye towards improving quality, reliability, performance and scalability

• 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

• Experience with containerization preferred

• Experience with large data sets preferred

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY:

At FloSports, we are bonded by our passion for sports and our purpose to unite communities around experiences that finally give underserved sports the love they deserve. We recognize the need to build a company that seeks out, embraces, and celebrates our individual differences, ideas, and talent. FloSports is committed to the pursuit of a fair, equal and inclusive workplace where everyone is given the opportunity to grow to their fullest potential. As such, we are intentional in our hiring practices in an effort to overcome systemic biases we may be blind to. FloSports has adopted the “blind recruiting” process, which aims to open our opportunities up to more candidates, help us be more objective in how we review applicants and mitigate bias in our decision making processes.

OUR BENEFITS:

• Recognized three years in a row as a Top Workplace by the Austin-American Statesman

• Annual equity awards for all top performers

• Competitive and comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans

• Peace of mind through 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 a full calendar of team-building and social events

• Company donation to youth teams and leagues that our employees coach

• Stocked snack bar, catered lunch and breakfast tacos every week