Engineer Manager

Fanatics • New York, NY

45d

About The Position

As a Engineering Manager, Distributed Systems at Fanatics Betting & Gaming
(FBG), you'll lead the team that builds and maintains core backend shared
libraries that power real-time, content-driven experiences across the product
ecosystem. We embrace principles of data-driven development, operational
excellence, and continuous process optimization to deliver a stable, scalable
platform. Central to our strategy is Kotlin Multiplatform, which empowers us to
deliver high-quality features quickly and consistently across multiple
ecosystems. By focusing on object-oriented design, modern coding practices,
open-source frameworks, and third-party platform integrations, we continuously
innovate and deliver at speed in this exciting and fast-moving market.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and inspire teams building
distributed systems that power our core platforms. You will be responsible for
growing high-performing engineering teams, shaping technical direction, and
ensuring delivery of resilient and scalable services built on
Kotlin, Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes. In this role, You'll balance
hands-on technical leadership, inner-source community stewardship, and incident
escalation ownership — serving as the engineering point of contact when product
teams need platform-level support.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineering teams.
• Experience owning shared libraries consumed by multiple teams
• Proven success leading teams building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Strong track record of building engineering organizations that deliver business-critical systems with reliability and speed.
• Familiarity with modern backend stacks, particularly Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders.
• Passion for building teams and cultures that deliver impactful results.
• Able to deal with ambiguity and strong self-motivation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading multi-team programs or platform transformations.
• Background in scaling organizations through high-growth phases.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop senior engineers responsible for supporting shared core libraries utilized by multiple engineering teams.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to align technical investments with company strategy, balancing long-term platform evolution with near-term priorities.
• Guide teams in building distributed, event-driven, and fault-tolerant systems leveraging Kafka, Redis/Redis PubSub, and Postgres.
• Provide architectural oversight and ensure best practices are applied when teams build new services leveraging the core shared libraries in Kotlin/Java with Spring Boot.
• Partner with product domain engineering managers and tech leads to prioritize shared library enhancements
• Set and measure engineering goals (availability, performance, delivery cadence, quality) and hold teams accountable to outcomes.
• Champion diversity, inclusion, and growth, ensuring that engineers thrive in a supportive and challenging environment.
• Recruit, retain, and scale top engineering talent to meet the demands of growing systems and business needs.
• Advocate for engineering across the organization, influencing leadership on technology strategy and distributed systems investment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed