Engineering Manager, Sports Core

Penn Interactive

8h•Remote

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.