Director of Engineering, Genius Sports

• This role is ideal for candidates who enjoy working closely with customers to design solutions and thrive working on a diverse range of projects
• 8+ years in the software development industry, including 3+ in leadership & team management roles. An agency / professional services background would be ideal
• Excellent leadership, presence, and delivery management skills with a proven track record working in distributed environments
• A passion not just for technology, but also for sports
• Strong technical background combined with strong, proactive communication skills and the ability to remove the jargon and interface with stakeholders and clients
• Strong knowledge of backend applications, ideally PHP and Symfony framework
• Solid understanding of ReactJS and responsive single-page web applications
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, system architecture, resiliency and redundancy)
• Solid experience with Cloud Computing, ideally with AWS (EC2, RDS, Elasticache, WAF)
• Solid knowledge of Relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and how to monitor and optimize queries for high load applications
• Experience integrating with 3rd party applications, e.g., Auth (OAuth/OIDC), analytics libraries, ad serving, data warehousing, data backups etc

Desirable

• As a Director of Engineering for our Professional Services Division, you will have the opportunity to manage a global team with direct reports in London, Australia, and oversight of a team in Europe
• Professional Services work closely with some of the largest sporting leagues, brands and sportsbooks in the world to deliver bespoke solutions leveraging Genius Sports’ unique data assets
• Manage a geographically distributed engineering team responsible for the delivery of projects, product features and initiatives agreed by the commercial team
• Create and execute technical strategy for the professional services organization
• Stakeholder management and expectation setting, along with proactive engagement when things aren’t going to plan
• Responsible for the security and operational costs of products built by the professional services team
• Identify, raise awareness, and find solutions for systemic problems in the product architecture and delivery team
• Author technical responses to RFPs and work closely with customers to architect bespoke solutions in the fan engagement space
• Maintain excellent relationships with key commercial and product stakeholders and clients, ensuring that technical priorities are visible and considered to ensure a productive team
• Community and Wellbeing champion, building a culture where learning is valued and supported