Engineering Manager, Sports Core

Penn Interactive
8hRemote

About The Position

As part of the Sports Core team, you will be working with a group of talented and friendly individuals. Our team builds and operates the platform foundations that power live sports and wagering experiences at scale. We own mission-critical core services and APIs that distribute real-time sports data and event state, enabling downstream teams to ship first-class fan experiences across our Media and Sports Betting products. Importantly, we take great pride in delivering highly reliable and scalable solutions.

Requirements

  • Known as being a kind person, who prioritizes the team’s outcomes over ego and leads with empathy, trust, and accountability
  • Motivate the people around you, pushing them to achieve more than expected through execution excellence, clear goals, and continuous coaching
  • Minimum 3–5 years in a leadership or management role combined with at least 8 years of experience in software development of consumer-facing, high-scale systems
  • Experience leading teams of 10+ engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development
  • Strong program and delivery management skills in managing scope tradeoffs and delivering predictably across overlapping initiatives and tight deadlines
  • Demonstrated problem-solving skills and strong operational judgment to manage risk, unblock teams, and make high-quality decisions under pressure
  • Ability to communicate complex technical information to various stakeholders, including non-technical members of the organization
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills, including writing crisp technical narratives for decision records, incident reviews, executive updates
  • Demonstrated collaborative work style with the ability to effectively collaborate and work with all levels of the organization
  • Platform mindset building and operating reliable, scalable, secure services for high-traffic, latency-sensitive experiences
  • High level of critical and logical thinking, analysis, and reasoning to identify underlying causes
  • Passionate about clean architecture, software craftsmanship, automated testing, CI/CD, and progressive delivery practices
  • Practical experience using AI developer tooling to improve throughput and quality with sensible guardrails
  • Able to evaluate and integrate AI capabilities into products to drive personalization, amplify feature enhancements, and support automation
  • Comfortable operating in regulated environments and embedding secure SDLC practices
  • Data-driven mindset leveraging product and engineering metrics to experiment and guide prioritization
  • A drive for finding simple solutions to complex problems, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
  • Passion for sports and fan culture, with an understanding of what fuels audience engagement and live event moments

Nice To Haves

  • Elixir, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), GraphQL schema stitching & subscriptions, GCP, Kubernetes, contribution to open source software

Responsibilities

  • Manage the day-to-day activities of one or more software development teams, providing goal setting, mentorship, coaching, leadership, guidance and performance management and feedback.
  • Collaborate closely with the Product Manager on the team to build the roadmap, flesh out requirements, and ensure the team executes.
  • Ensure development deliverables are documented and key decisions are recorded in accordance with the design and development process.
  • Help with hiring initiatives across the engineering department.
  • Assist in identifying process problems and contribute to the continual enhancement of the design, development processes and system architecture.
  • Ensure development follows the development process throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Establish success metrics (KPIs and SLAs) and monitor team and system performance.
  • Collaborate with the team to meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals.
  • Stay current with trends, techniques, technology and other factors impacting the job incorporating as deemed necessary.
  • Other duties as required.

Benefits

  • Ship features that impact millions of users.
  • Work on large distributed systems spanning public cloud and on-prem locations.
  • Learn how to manage workloads, at scale, running on Kubernetes
  • Competitive compensation and comprehensive Benefits package.
  • Education and conference reimbursement.
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