Lead a team of engineers to define technical strategy, manage hiring, deliver high-quality software, and collaborate across teams in a fast-paced environment.
About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
About the Role
We’re looking for an engineering leader to contribute to The Athletic growth. The ideal candidate excels at defining our technical strategy, translating that strategy into staffing and technical roadmaps, and then growing and managing the team to execute on those roadmaps.
This role is 100% remote for candidates currently based in the United States or Canada.
Responsibilities
- You will be a key constituent of the team who defines and execute the strategy for The Athletic.
- You will be responsible for managing the hiring process as additional engineers join our team, with a focus on diversity and inclusion, and staffing and structuring your teams to meet business needs.
- Manage your team of leaders and help them to deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced, agile, high-growth environment.
- Make technology, infrastructure, architectural, and hiring decisions to meet anticipated demands and scale.
- Evaluate trade-offs and effectively prioritize tasks within each team in alignment with strategic initiatives and company goals.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, editorial, data science, and marketing teams to define strategy, execute on roadmaps, and remove roadblocks.
- Hold regular 1:1s, evaluate performance, and provide consistent productive feedback.
- Help engineers learn the skills needed to advance in their career.
- Work with engineers and product managers to iterate on and improve team processes and efficiency.
- Contribute to important company-wide initiatives like diversity and inclusion, technical brand, and hiring process.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience managing an engineering team.
- Experience leading a team building a consumer product on both web and iOS/Android, evaluating architecture tradeoffs and helping team make technical decisions.
- Direct experience scaling a small to medium/large team highly desired (but not required).
- Experience with some portion of our tech stack, and an appetite to learn the remainder: AWS, Javascript (React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo/GraphQL), PHP (Wordpress), MySQL/DynamoDB, ElasticSearch.
- Enthusiasm to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
- A strong desire to stay connected to the codebase—this can be a hands-on role if desired.
The annual base salary range for this role is $270,000.00 - $300,000.00 USD. The total compensation offered for this position may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, and location. It may also include non-cash rewards and benefits. The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our comprehensive US benefits package includes:
- Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
- Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
- 401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
- Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
For international candidates: Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Beware of fraudulent job recruiting schemes! Our recruiters use [email protected] exclusively, and our team members will use an email address with @theathletic.com domain. We do not conduct interviews via text or instant message and we do not ask candidates to download software, to purchase equipment through us, or to provide sensitive personally identifiable information, such as bank accounts or social security numbers. If you have been contacted by someone claiming to be a member of the recruiting/HR team at The Athletic but operating from a different email address about a job offer, please report it as potential job fraud to the law enforcement and to [email protected].
Top Skills
Apollo
AWS
DynamoDB
Elasticsearch
GraphQL
JavaScript
MySQL
Next.Js
Node.js
PHP
React
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