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Director Software Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$220K/yr - $290K/yr
5+ years expFanatics is a leading company in the sports merchandise industry, and they are seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead and scale their engineering teams. This role involves providing technical leadership, managing multiple teams, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software for customer-facing products and internal platforms.
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Responsibilities
Provide leadership and technical expertise within your engineering vertical
Build and lead multiple teams that will deliver software while adhering (and contributing) to engineering best practices. These teams will evolve/create architecture and/or product solutions that are exemplary in terms of their robustness, stability, scalability, and cost effectiveness
Ensure the right people are in the right positions, actively building succession plans and creating leadership opportunities
Make business cases for communications externally (ex, blogs, whitepapers, patents), speaking at public events on behalf of Fanatics
Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across all of Fanatics, and collaborate with leaders to prioritize technical efforts and provide input on product features and capabilities
Drive predictability and reliability through Operational Excellence and create clear objectives and transparency through the use of data and KPIs
Provide clear updates (KPIs, status, metrics) to an executive audience and key stakeholders
Help identify technology gaps and opportunities, taking ownership for the technology roadmap within the space and ensuring appropriate engineering investments in the underlying platform
Effectively balance opportunity vs. resources vs. sustainability
Set targets for developer experience metrics
Drive best practices across your teams
Determine where to simplify, optimize, or extend solutions for the best outcomes
Drive resolution to architecture contention
Drive discussions around business and technology decisions, and participates in strategic initiatives with 1 to 3 year time horizons
Mentor leaders on how to develop talent within their teams
Help to recruit, assess and onboard a diverse group of talented engineers
Develop solid understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development
Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, 2+ managing other engineering managers
You are an expert technologist with experience in managing multiple teams that can influence and defend our quality posture
You have knowledge of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different teams
Demonstrated experience determining when to make a case for resourcing (and when not to)
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
Excellent influencing and problem resolution skills
Solid report writing skills with the ability to gather, evaluate and analyze relevant information while structuring material in a logical and coherent manner
You have an agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment
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
Experience working in a start-up environment
Benefits
Home office setup stipend
Onsite interviews
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Company
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2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
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