Director of Engineering, Professional Services

A bit about us:  

Genius Sports is at the forefront of the sports technology landscape, delivering real-time data and innovative digital solutions that connect sports, brands, and fans worldwide. From data capture to distribution, we are an integral partner to sports leagues and federations—including the NFL, English Premier League, FIBA, and NCAA—ensuring that critical data and cutting-edge products reach millions of users. 

If you want to be part of a passionate global team shaping the future of sports entertainment, then come and join us. We foster an environment where creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning drive innovation for our partners and end-users.  

The Role – Director of Engineering, Professional Services  

As a Director of Engineering for our Professional Services Division, you will have the opportunity to manage a global team with direct reports in London, Australia, and oversight of a team in Europe. You will work to deliver complex digital products with an emphasis on working with data.  
This role will sit in our NYC office.

Key Responsibilities:  

• Define and lead PSO’s technical strategy and operating model: Own how we work technically - from our tools to architectural patterns and delivery methods. Drive alignment on best practices that balance innovation, quality, and maintainability across all projects.
• Design and scale high-performing engineering teams: Take a structured approach to building teams that can scale with demand and adopt new ways of working. Define clear roles, workflows, and interfaces between teams to ensure autonomy without silos.
• Champion engineering excellence and modern practices: Lead the adoption of foundational practices such as test-driven development (TDD), automated testing, CI/CD, code reuse, and documentation. Foster a culture of quality where these practices are embedded, not bolted on.
• Accelerate AI tooling adoption and developer efficiency: Identify and implement opportunities for AI and automation to enhance productivity, from code generation to testing and QA. Evangelize modern tooling and lead the mindset shift required for adoption.
• Architect bespoke solutions with a platform mindset: Guide technical design and architectural decisions across client projects. Drive reuse and common standards to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery, even for custom implementations.
• Be a visible and proactive technical leader: Provide thought leadership internally and externally. Set the tone for engineering culture, coach team members, and represent technical priorities with confidence to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Identify and resolve systemic issues: Spot recurring architectural, operational, or process challenges across projects and address them through strategic fixes, not just patchwork. Use metrics and retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate across PSO and beyond: Build strong relationships with product, commercial, and delivery leads. Translate technical vision into business value and ensure alignment with customer needs and organizational goals.
• Support pre-sales and technical scoping: Own the technical elements of RFP responses, estimates, and solution designs. Bring creativity, realism, and long-term thinking to client engagements.
• Foster a strong engineering culture: Promote curiosity, learning, and professional development. Create a safe environment for experimentation, failure, and feedback, while setting clear expectations and standards.
  

Qualifications:  

• 8+ years in the software development industry, including 3+ in leadership & team management roles 
• Strong technical background combined with strong communication skills and the ability to remove the jargon and interface with stakeholders and clients  
• Strong knowledge of backend applications, ideally PHP and Symfony framework 
• Solid understanding of ReactJS and responsive single-page web applications 
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, system architecture, resiliency and redundancy)  
• Solid experience with Cloud Computing, ideally with AWS (EC2, RDS, Elasticache, WAF) 
• Experience configuring CDN technologies (AWS CloudFront, Akamai, CloudFlare ) 
• Solid knowledge of Relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and how to monitor and optimize queries for high load applications 
• Experience working with infrastructure-as-code (IAC) templates (CloudFormation, Terraform) 
• Extensive experience integrating with 3rd party applications, e.g., Auth (OAuth/OIDC), analytics libraries, ad serving, data warehousing, data backups etc. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Knowledge of other back-end technologies (Node.js, Kotlin / Spring Boot) 
• Possess Redis experience; 
• Experience theming and styling with Material UI and styled-components packages 
• Experience integrating libraries to handle authentication, advertising and analytics   
• Knowledge of OOP and functional programming 

What’s in it for you?  

As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer a host of softer benefits, including many social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.    

The salary for this role is based on an annualized range of $200,000 - $250,000 USD. This role will also be eligible to take part in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan. 

How we work:  

Genius will be returning to the office 4 days a week, and this will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively face-to-face with colleagues in our New York office.  

Our employees are empowered to stretch the boundaries of what’s achievable, always reaching further and pushing the edges to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organization and continue to invest in our highly talented and diverse team of Geniuses.    

Genius Sports Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workforce bring to our business, our customers and our staff. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of age, different abilities or disability, gender re-assignment, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (and any other applicable status). Please let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.