Director of Engineering, Fan Experience

Gametime United•Chicago, IL

18h•Onsite

About The Position

Gametime's Fan Experience team is responsible for how fans discover, decide on, and purchase tickets on the demand side of their marketplace. This Engineering Manager will lead a team of full-stack and front-end engineers in building features that define the fan experience. The role involves hands-on coding, setting standards for AI tool usage, and partnering with Product Managers and Designers. This position reports to the VP of Product.

Requirements

A hands-on engineering manager comfortable spending real time writing and reviewing code alongside the team.
Direct experience using frontier models, AI coding agents/harnesses, and modern tooling to meaningfully improve engineering velocity and quality, with a point of view on future trends.
A track record of shipping consumer-facing product features that moved measurable business outcomes.
Strong cross-functional partnership skills, comfortable operating as a peer to Product and Design with opinions on product direction.
Experience managing full-stack and/or front-end engineering teams, with meaningful people-management experience (typically 5+ years in engineering, including several as a manager).
Familiarity with SQL/analytics to diagnose funnel and feature performance.
Experience leading full-stack teams with end-to-end ownership of consumer-facing web and mobile products, backend services, and APIs in a high-traffic marketplace or e-commerce environment.
Strong understanding of modern front-end stacks (e.g., React and React Native), backend services, APIs, and full-stack architecture, with the technical depth to lead teams across the stack.
Experience partnering with Product and Design in a fast-moving, iterative environment (feature flags, A/B testing, rapid experimentation).
A data-driven approach to prioritization and technical trade-offs.

Nice To Haves

Experience in consumer marketplaces or high-intent, high-conversion consumer apps.
A track record of building or championing internal tooling/platform investments that compounded team velocity over time.

Responsibilities

Spend a meaningful share of time coding alongside the team, leading from the front.
Set the standard for how the team uses frontier models, AI coding agents/harnesses, and new tooling to generate, review, test, and monitor code.
Partner closely, day-to-day, with a dedicated PM and Designer as a trio, contributing a strong point of view on product and feature development.
Partner with product to identify and invest in initiatives that will increase team velocity over time, such as tooling, domain foundation design, tech debt paydown, and better AI utilization.
Partner with product to identify risks in proposed features and provide concrete recommendations for mitigation.
Own the engineering roadmap and execution plan for the area, balancing speed, quality, and technical debt.
Mentor engineers towards their next career level, maintain a high talent bar for hiring and performance, and help level up talent on other teams.
Partner with engineering leads and counterparts on other teams to improve the marketplace technically.
Drive fan-facing feature velocity, quality, and business outcomes on the demand side of the marketplace.