Underdog Sports
Engineering Manager - Product Engineering
Job Summary
The role involves leading engineering efforts to develop and maintain a scalable, high-performance platform for fantasy sports and betting enthusiasts. The candidate will manage a backend engineering team, collaborate with product managers, and ensure the delivery of innovative features while maintaining technical excellence. Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and guiding a remote team is important. The position offers comprehensive benefits, including unlimited PTO, parental leave, health coverage, and a competitive salary range.
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Job Description
We’re Underdog.
The fastest-growing sports gaming company, ever. We’re here to make sports more fun. We pair intuitive user experiences with innovative game designs to build the best experience for sports fans in America.
Since 2020, we’ve launched four of today’s most widely played fantasy games, and built the Underdog Sportsbook entirely in-house with our own tech. We move fast, act with urgency, and create experiences you won’t find anywhere else.
With a $1.2 billion valuation and backing from investors like BlackRock, Spark Capital, SV Angel, Mark Cuban, Kevin Durant, Adam Schefter, and more, we’re just getting started.
At Underdog, we play and win as a team. We take chances and are unafraid to attack hard problems. We face challenges with ambition and optimism. We play for the love of the game.
We’re Underdog. And winning as an Underdog is just more fun.
Join us.
About the role and why it's unique:
- Lead engineering to redefine the game. Manage and inspire a team of talented backend engineers focused on delivering innovative experiences that captivate fantasy sports and betting enthusiasts. Guide your team in tackling complex technical challenges while fostering professional growth.
- Design the future of sports entertainment. Shape the development of a cutting-edge platform that provides seamless, engaging, and scalable experiences for millions of sports fans globally.
- Deliver best in class features and performance. Prioritize, execute, and oversee initiatives that drive gameplay innovation, optimize user engagement, and ensure platform reliability at scale.
- Build a winning engineering culture. Cultivate a collaborative, innovative environment that thrives on technical excellence, creativity, and shared passion for delivering impactful products.
- Champion development best practices. Advocate for and implement engineering best practices, ensuring the team aligns with industry standards and maintains a high-quality codebase.
- Collaborate to shape the product vision. Partner closely with product managers and engineering leads to define features, plan delivery, and drive the development process from ideation to launch.
Who you are:
- You have a minimum of one year experience managing a high performing backend or fullstack team responsible for delivering high impact features
- 7+ years of experience building highly scalable, available distributed systems to handle high traffic conditions with low latency
- Experience working with product managers in gathering requirements, investigating technical needs, and creating designs that fit within project timelines
- High level of accountability, bias for action, and a desire to empower individuals on the team to perform at their best
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem solving skills
Even better if you have…
- Experience leading a team in a remote-first and fast-paced environment
- Experience with regulated industries
- Experience with Ruby on Rails (our backend framework)
- Proficiency working in AWS or other cloud infrastructures like GCP or Azure
Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $190,000 and $215,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.
What we can offer you:
- Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- A $500 home office allowance
- A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
- 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents
#LI-REMOTE
This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations.
Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.
Underdog Sports
A fantasy sports platform offering daily contests and games for sports enthusiasts to compete and win prizes.
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