Director Software Engineering

Fanatics is a company focused on delivering high-quality customer experiences through innovative software solutions. The Director of Software Engineering will lead and scale engineering teams responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, and maintaining software for customer-facing products and internal platforms.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• Experience working in a start-up environment