Engineering Manager
At Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), we're building a world where every fan's passion is met with cutting-edge experiences. The Engineering Manager role within the OddsFactory team is a cornerstone of this vision. You'll lead a high-impact team of Software Engineers focused on developing innovative technologies that drive our risk and trading systems.
You'll lead two high-impact software engineering teams with distinct but complementary missions:
- Application Platform & Tooling builds and maintains shared frameworks, libraries, and tools that accelerate software delivery across OddsFactory.
- Trading Platform Operations ensures that trading systems are observably performant, production-hardened, and event-ready, especially during critical sporting moments.
Your role is to unify these capabilities under a single strategic vision: reduce friction, increase reliability, and raise the bar for engineering execution across the entire platform.
Responsibilities:
- Platform Engineering & Developer Enablement
- Operational Readiness & Trading Support
- Joint Responsibilities Across Both Teams
Required Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in engineering leadership, with a strong ability to mentor, grow talent, and inspire technical excellence.
- 7+ years of hands-on software development experience, preferably in a cloud-native, service-oriented environment (.NET/C# a plus).
- Proven experience building internal tools, frameworks, or platform libraries used across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated success leading teams responsible for production operations, readiness, or performance in a high-scale or event-driven domain.
- Strong cross-team collaboration skills, especially across platform, product, and operations boundaries.
- Excellent communication and strategic thinking skills; able to shift between technical depth and executive clarity.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science or similar (or equivalent experience).
- Experience leading distributed or remote teams.
- Passion for sports and/or the sports betting industry.
- Background in building observability frameworks or operational automation tooling.
- Passion for delivering platform value that is both technically sound and directly impactful to users.
- Start-up or high-growth environment experience, with a bias toward rapid learning and iteration.
- Strong team collaboration mindset and passion for working in a supportive, fast-paced environment.
The expected salary range for this role is based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award. *Salary range is listed in USD; actual salary will vary based on location. *Salary Range: $144,000 - $235,000 per year (actual salary will be determined in part by a successful candidate's geographic location). In addition to base salary, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, and more. We'll also give you $700 to set up your home office!