Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join GameChanger's Core Services Team as a Engineering Manager and lead a fully remote team in building and maintaining the backend infrastructure for our youth sports platform. You will guide the team's strategy, roadmap, and execution, collaborating with other engineering teams to gather feedback and improve our systems. Develop core architectural components and frameworks to enhance feature delivery, scalability, and reliability. Empower developers through refactoring, enforcing patterns, and improving the developer experience. Work with DevOps and Mobile App Platform teams to manage a high-volume API. Promote responsible engineering practices and mentor engineers to develop their skills and leadership potential. This role reports to the Director of Platform Engineering and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• People management background
• 5+ years of working and leading an engineering team, including as a technical lead/architect
• Experience building and operating large-scale, highly-available, observable, and secure distributed systems
• Customer empathy for internal and external customers

Responsibilities

• Guide and drive the strategy, roadmap definition, prioritization, execution, and team building for the team
• Work with other engineering teams and leaders to gather internal customer feedback and use it to influence the direction for the team
• Develop core architectural components and frameworks to make feature delivery faster, more reliable, and scalable. Examples include internal SDKs, eventing systems, routing patterns, deferred work (queue) libraries, and other core concepts
• Empower developers by refactoring backend systems for greater autonomy, enforcing patterns with linting rules, and improving observability, resiliency, and the developer experience of our back-end TypeScript systems
• Work with the DevOps/Infrastructure and Mobile App Platform teams to manage a scalable and resilient API that handles billions of API requests and events per day
• Promote responsible engineering practices across the whole engineering organization
• Help engineers contribute at the highest level and serve our customers while gaining technical breadth and depth, improve judgment, and develop into tomorrow's leaders
• Work with leadership peers to refine and improve our innovative engineering culture
• Participate in an occasional on-call rotation with the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience coding in a higher-level language such as TypeScript/Node is beneficial
• Knowledgeable about AWS services, patterns and best practices for resiliency, scalability, and security

Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Paid volunteer opportunities
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology
• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable
• Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly
• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents
• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life
• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability
• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Family building benefits offered through Progyny
• DICK’S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount