Engineering Manager

Fanatics Collectibles•Los Angeles, NY

12d

About The Position

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally. About the Team Fanatics Collect is a leading marketplace and platform for physical and digital collectibles, bringing together commerce, content, and community for collectors at massive scale. We are building high-quality, fan-first experiences and investing deeply in modern engineering, product, and design practices to support long-term growth. The Role We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Client Platform Team across iOS, Android, and Web for the Live and Collect apps. This role is responsible for people leadership, platform execution, operational excellence, and strong technical judgment across shared client infrastructure and engineering workflows. The Client Platform Team owns shared client infrastructure, developer tooling, observability foundations, release systems, and cross-platform standards that enable product engineering teams to ship high-quality client experiences faster and more safely. Product engineering teams remain responsible for feature delivery and operational quality within their domains, while the platform team enables consistency, visibility, reliability, and scalable engineering practices across the organization. This role partners closely with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, SRE/Infrastructure, and other cross-functional stakeholders to improve release reliability, client observability, developer productivity, and platform health across the Live and Collect ecosystem. This role is expected to be technically engaged and hands-on with engineering workflows, architecture discussions, operational reviews, debugging, and development practices while remaining primarily focused on team leadership, execution, and organizational impact. Platform Responsibilities and Operational Focus The Client Platform Team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems, tooling, standards, dashboards, alerts, and operational workflows that improve release reliability, client observability, performance visibility, developer productivity, and platform health across iOS, Android, and Web applications. The team partners closely with product engineering teams to identify issues, drive improvements, establish best practices, and support operational excellence across critical client experiences.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience
2+ years of experience managing and developing engineers
Experience leading client platform, frontend, mobile, or cross-platform engineering teams across iOS, Android, and/or Web
Strong judgment around delivery, quality, architecture, performance, reliability, and technical tradeoffs
Experience improving release quality, observability, developer productivity, CI/CD health, or platform reliability through engineering systems and operational practices
Ability to lead through influence across multiple product and engineering teams

Nice To Haves

Experience with consumer-facing, marketplace, commerce, live, or real-time products
Experience in high-growth or fast-paced environments
Hands-on familiarity with modern client observability, performance monitoring, CI/CD, automated testing, and release management practices
Experience implementing or scaling AI-assisted engineering workflows and developer productivity tooling

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and develop engineers working across iOS, Android, and Web client platforms
Lead platform initiatives focused on developer productivity, release reliability, observability, shared tooling, and client platform health
Establish clear expectations, priorities, ownership boundaries, and success metrics for the Client Platform Team
Drive execution of platform initiatives that improve developer workflows, release safety, observability, and client quality
Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, SRE/Infrastructure, and other stakeholders on planning, sequencing, and execution
Partner with engineering leadership to prioritize platform reliability, developer productivity, observability, and modernization investments alongside product delivery commitments
Improve release-readiness processes, CI/CD health, PR validation quality, automated testing practices, and incident follow-through
Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, logs, and operational workflows that improve visibility into critical client experiences
Partner with client engineering teams on shared architectural patterns, framework adoption, dependency health, and platform consistency
Drive effective adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows, including development tooling, documentation, testing support, code review augmentation, and developer enablement best practices
Remain technically engaged in architecture discussions, operational reviews, development workflows, and engineering quality practices while empowering engineers to own implementation details
Support hiring, onboarding, team growth, and a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement