Senior Engineering Manager, GameChanger
Video Enablement
$205-235k
Plus $20K – $23K Bonus and equity
More information about location
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
Be an early applicant
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$205-235k
Plus $20K – $23K Bonus and equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
GameChanger's mission is to help families elevate the next generation through sports.
Role
Who you are
- Strong background in video and audio streaming, with hands-on experience in user-generated content and live streaming technologies, and a proven track record of delivering projects in that space
- A leadership style rooted in collaboration, someone who earns trust by listening first, understands the existing landscape before suggesting changes, and influences through ideas rather than authority
- Solid understanding of software engineering principles and cloud architecture in a resilient, scalable video infrastructure environment (we use AWS)
- Ability to think strategically and contribute to the long-term vision of the engineering team along with your leadership partners in the space
- Comfort operating as a player-coach: you're not writing code every day, but you're close enough to the work to be credible, helpful, and a genuine resource to your team
- Experience coding in languages common in the video space (Go, Rust, C#) is a plus, as is familiarity with Node/TypeScript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift
- A proven engineering leader with a track record of delivering in the video streaming space, doing it with your team, not just through them
- Energized by high visibility and high stakes. Our platform handles millions of live streams and hundreds of millions of clips annually, and a lot of people across the org depend on what we build
- Someone who sees a strong existing team and culture as an asset to build on, not a blank slate to redesign
- An excellent communicator who can bridge technical depth and stakeholder clarity without losing either
- Genuinely user-obsessed - you care about the experience on the other end of the stream
- Curious and current: you follow the evolution of video technology and bring relevant ideas to the table without chasing trends for their own sake
- Someone who creates an environment where engineers feel safe saying "I don't know" and where postmortems are about learning, not blame
- Comfortable with a remote-first, async-by-default culture - you communicate proactively in writing, don't need a meeting to make progress, and trust others to do the same
What the job involves
- At GameChanger we score and stream millions of youth sports games annually
- We are seeking a talented Senior Engineering Manager who is passionate about live-streaming to manage our video enablement team. This full-stack, empowered team is dedicated to all things core video experience - owning our video pipeline end to end with our video platform team, evolving our live streaming and post-game video capabilities for users, simplifying the developer experience for product teams that are integrating video into our apps, and ensuring we have a scalable and resilient base in our apps/APIs to handle millions of streams and hundreds of millions of highlight clips annually
- As Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll manage our enablement team and set them up for success by continuing to monitor/adjust the team’s culture, collaborate on the vision of video enablement within our products, influencing design/architecture principles and best practices, growing tomorrow’s leaders, and running the day to day of the team
- As an excellent communicator and builder of people, you will be a leader, a mentor, and occasional hands-on developer or solutions architect and work closely with the video teams Engineering Director, engineers, product managers, and other cross-functional roles and teams
- Partner closely with the Director of Video Engineering, a dedicated PM, and cross-functional feature teams to help shape and execute on GC's video streaming roadmap - contributing your technical perspective while working within a collaborative, already-thriving team dynamic
- Lead the Video Enablement team through the design, build, and support of core video capabilities, including third-party device integration support (ex: GoPro, Mevo, etc.), mobile-first live streaming and capture, ingest, transcode, storage, and playback
- Continuously measure and improve live and VOD streaming experiences, bringing data and user empathy to every decision
- Hire, onboard, and grow a high-performing team of mobile, backend, and infrastructure engineers - preserving and extending a culture of ownership, curiosity, and craft while mentoring engineers into tomorrow's technical leaders
- Serve as a hands-on technical leader: staying sharp enough to review code, contribute when needed, and credibly mentor a team of senior and staff engineers while working alongside leadership peers to build on what's working rather than reinventing it
- Partner with infrastructure teams to maintain a resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient video pipeline in AWS
- Enable product feature teams and computer vision teams to build on top of video infrastructure through clear interfaces, documentation, and collaboration
- Stay engaged during production incidents and pitch in when the team needs support
Our take
The competitive nature of sports has always been driven by scorekeeping, and nowadays results are often consumed online. However, for smaller teams it can be difficult to provide this information digitally, as they do not have dedicated web development staff.
GameChanger provides a scorekeeping and statistics platform for sports teams to engage with their fans, that allows viewers to track the progress of a game in real-time similar to with professional sports. The company also embeds a live-streaming service into the platform to facilitate remote viewing, helping to increase audience engagement.
Whilst some sports teams already stream events on platforms such as Twitch and YouTube, most do not have the technical resources to achieve this. GameChanger has recognised this gap in the market, providing a simple yet unified platform for sports scoreboards and streaming, providing a fair opportunity for any team to maximise their community engagement.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2014
$6.8m
SERIES B
Nov 2011
$1.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10.7m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Vacation - Take time off work and travel the world. Enjoy unlimited vacation time.
- Remote Work - GameChanger’s can work from anywhere. You’ll receive a tech budget to make sure you’re set up for success.
- Health Insurance - We’ll make sure you stay healthy. Health, dental, vision, and other perks like a pre-tax FSA - we've got you covered.
- 401K Plan - We’re always looking ahead and so should you. Did we mention that we match?
- Tech Budget - You receive a large tech budget every two years. It’s yours to keep.
- Continued Learning - Tuition reimbursement, an annual flexible learning budget, mentorship opportunities, and more.
- Parental Leave - Get the time off you need with extended parental leave for both parents.
- Wellness - Stay fit and healthy on us. We offer a Gympass membership.
- Other Perks - Monthly Snack Boxes, Dick's Sporting Goods employee discount, Demo Day, Hack Day, virtual and in person team social events
Company HQ
East Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Sameer Ahuja
(President)SVP at DICK’S Sporting Goods, that owns GameChanger. Former Founder and CEO of Dera Capital Advisors, as well as former Co-founder and COO/CFO of the Sports Museum of America.
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