As an Engineering Manager at Fanatics, you will be a technical leader with the ability to grow and scale engineering teams that can deliver business results and ship high-quality software for customer-facing products and internal platforms.
We own the Fanatics App, the mobile app at Fanatics that encompasses elements from all of our different brands and businesses. The Fanatics App brings together Free to Play games, live events, ecommerce, and new product experiences to deliver a best-in-class Sports platform. Fundamentally, we are one team in everything we do, from the user experience to coding and architecture. We aim to deliver on our Customer Promise by delighting our millions of monthly active users.
Responsibilities:- Provide leadership and technical expertise within your engineering vertical
- Build and lead one or more teams that will deliver software while adhering (and contributing) to engineering best practices
- Clarify technical requirements, negotiate priorities, and manage projects to deliver on time by leading daily scrum activities
- Clears or escalates blockers to accelerate progress of delivery
- Work closely with your product and design partners to create an ambitious, yet achievable roadmap that can be communicated to executives and stakeholders
- Drive reliable and predictable team execution by setting clear objectives, using data and KPIs to drive transparency, and champion continuous improvement across engineering practices and systems
- Provide clear updates (KPIs, status, metrics) to an executive audience and key stakeholders
- Determine where to simplify, optimize, or extend solutions for the best outcomes
- Help to recruit, assess and onboard a diverse group of talented engineers
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Required Qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience managing an engineering team
- 4+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems
- You have knowledge of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different teams
- Able to scope a project and with targeted dates to ensure they meet business needs
- Knows how to discern which features are essential, can be triaged, or omitted and works to negotiate with Product Management
- Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders)
- Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Solid report writing skills with the ability to gather, evaluate and analyze relevant information while structuring material in a logical and coherent manner.
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly
- Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
- Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in a start-up environment
- Strong mobile software engineering background
- Experience working with Kotlin Multiplatform and/or Compose Multiplatform
If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!
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Skills Required
- 1+ years of experience managing an engineering team
- 4+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Knowledge of a broad range of design approaches and ability to deconstruct architectures for development by different teams
- Ability to scope projects and establish target dates aligned with business needs
- Ability to identify essential features, triage or omit others, and negotiate priorities with Product Management
- Ability to communicate complex technical subjects to technical and non-technical audiences
- Familiarity with Agile software delivery and Scrum methodology
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Solid report-writing skills and ability to gather, evaluate, analyze, and structure information logically
- Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment with evolving priorities
- Team-first mentality and willingness to do what it takes to achieve results
- Ability to work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment
- Experience working in a startup environment
- Strong mobile software engineering background
- Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform and/or Compose Multiplatform
Fanatics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fanatics and has not been reviewed or approved by Fanatics.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentives like annual bonuses and overtime opportunities are common, supporting higher total compensation especially in corporate roles. Seasonal premiums and performance bonuses are also cited across roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options, mental-health services, and wellness programs are highlighted as core offerings. Additional supports like HSAs/FSAs and condition management further strengthen the health package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave, fertility benefits, adoption assistance, and gender-affirmation coverage are explicitly included. Childcare support and backup care resources are also referenced.
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What We Do
Transforming the licensed sports industry through an innovative vertical e-commerce model that allows Fanatics to quickly design, manufacture and distribute high-quality fan gear across retail channels, better serving the real-time expectations of leagues, teams, fans and retailers in today’s mobile-first, on-demand culture.
Why Work With Us
You don't have to love sports to work here (though we love sports fanatics as well!). Fanatics is an industry leading, multi-billion dollar, international, privately held company with a casual, lofty space in the heart of Downtown Boulder. We have the advantages of a startup, without the pitfalls.
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