Our division, “Sportradar ad:s” provides data-driven marketing and sponsorship services to the iGaming industry, designed to help deliver significant efficiency improvements for marketing investments. The ad:s team develops and provides purpose-built tools and services to meet the individual marketing needs of sportsbooks and media publishers worldwide. Imagine yourself working in surroundings of sports data, live play-by-play statistics, virtual sports, microservices, and betting – everything was done in an agile spirit and always striving to deliver the most value for our customers. We are passionate about what we do, and we care passionately about our people. If you think you’re up to the challenge, come and help us to grow, innovate and develop!
THE ROLE:
As an Engineering Manager (m/f/d) at Sportradar, you will be responsible for leading a cross-functional product team on the delivery of their roadmap and helping the engineers develop their careers. Working closely with the Product Manager you will own the technical strategy to ensure that the product scales with the demands of our rapidly growing clients. You will play a key role in coaching and mentoring our engineers so that they develop the skills required to grow their careers. This is a hands-on role that will allow you to code whilst balancing the other elements of the role.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Member of the Tribe’s Engineering Leadership group, contributing to topics such as: Operational concerns like Security, Incident Management, DevOps, Audit and Compliance; Engineering Roadmap; SDLC alignment and improvement plans
- Responsible for recruitment, development, performance management and retention for all team members.
- Responsible for providing line management duties for all team members to focus on coaching and mentoring techniques aligned with agile principles and values.
- Responsible for providing an inclusive environment where team members have the freedom and safety to innovate, experiment, and learn from failure.
- Responsible for providing open and effective communication channels leading to greater knowledge transfer and alignment within the team
- Responsible for being the local point-of-contact, coordinating with the People Partner, Office Manager and IT Helpdesk, to represent, signpost and assist Engineers based locally in the same office to find support in matters relating to: Equipment and devices; Physical and software access; Personal issues; New joiners
- 6+ years of professional experience in agile software development, working on complex systems that serve many users.
- Proven hands-on people and technical leadership experience managing a team of engineers.
- Extensive professional experience developing in one or more high-level programming languages
- Professional experience with front-end and back-end related technologies (e.g. Go, Python) in modern software development.
- Able to communicate effectively in all circumstances with a wide range of stakeholders.
Preferred:
- Experience with microservices development and operations.
- Familiarity with multiple cloud providers like Google Cloud and AWS.
- Experience using AWS serverless technologies such as Lambda and Kubernetes technologies like GKE and EKS.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as code using either Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Experience with different database technologies (Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB and BigQuery)
- Experience building APIs using schema like OpenAPI.
- Experience integrating third-party data feeds.
- Experience building out data pipelines using event-driven architecture.
- Experience using a CI/CD pipeline like GitLab for managing the application lifecycle.
- Experience using Docker or other container-based solutions.
- Experience in introducing tooling and knowledge sharing to mentor your team.
- A passion for bringing great products into our world through collaboration and ingenuity.
OUR OFFER:
- The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company
- The possibility to help shape the future of Sportradar. All developers are directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business.
- Involvement in shaping your own workday and career through a high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development path.
- A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US).
- A company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun.
- Innovative and cross-team challenges like ShipIt, office sports tournaments in Darts and Table Tennis and unique beer brewing competitions.
- Competitive salary and benefits (e.g. retirement pension and insurance plan)
- Sportradar takes over the full costs of € 365.- for the Öffi-Ticket (Jahreskarte) for you.
While we value the opportunities to work from home, we truly believe that being together, and sharing ideas, opportunities, trials and tribulations with teammates make us stronger and more innovative – individually and as a company. We strengthen the fibers of our Company each day, just by being together. For this reason, we operate a hybrid model where we are in the office 3 days a week.
The minimum monthly salary for this position is according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, overpayment will be considered depending on qualifications and working experience.
Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences
