Engineering Manager, Sports Media
Sportradar is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented engineers building enterprise-grade, high-uptime sports analytics and broadcast tooling. This role balances people leadership and deep technical engagement.
The successful candidate will manage and grow the team while remaining hands-on enough to shape architecture, guide technical decisions, and maintain the high standards of data accuracy and software quality that enterprise customers depend on.
- Manage a team of software engineers, providing consistent 1:1s, team retros, clear performance feedback, and genuine investment in each engineer's career growth.
- Set clear expectations, document goals, and conduct performance reviews; connect individual career aspirations with team and product backlogs.
- Mentor engineers at all levels, helping them grow both technically and professionally.
- Foster a strong engineering culture built on collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Empower engineers to be creative problem-solvers while maintaining high standards of quality, reliability, and uptime.
- Provide hands-on architectural direction across the team's systems, facilitating key decisions around system design, data modeling, and service boundaries.
- Drive the reduction of technical debt by identifying systemic risks, prioritizing remediation efforts, and balancing those efforts with feature development.
- Participate meaningfully in design reviews, merge request reviews, and technical discussions.
- Advocate for engineering best practices including reliability, observability, security, performance, agentic development, and maintainability at scale.
- Ensure systems meet the uptime and data accuracy standards expected by enterprise customers.
- Lead post-mortems and drive incident follow-through.
- Leverage agentic development tools to increase engineering velocity while maintaining high standards of quality, readability, and architectural consistency.
- Partner closely with Product teams to translate business goals into well-scoped and well-sequenced engineering initiatives.
- Organize and maintain delivery swim lanes that provide engineers with clear priorities and focused work.
- Own team-level delivery commitments, forecast accurately, communicate risks early, and consistently deliver high-quality software.
- Balance feature development, platform investment, and technical debt while making trade-offs transparent and defensible.
- Participate in cross-functional planning with Product, Design, DevOps, and Architecture teams to ensure alignment and clear ownership boundaries.
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, including direct line management of software engineers (required).
- Proven track record of growing engineers through coaching, performance management, and career development (required).
- Experience partnering with Product Managers to manage backlogs, facilitate sprint planning, and deliver commitments in an Agile environment (required).
- Comfortable navigating performance discussions directly and constructively (required).
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with sufficient hands-on depth to engage credibly on architecture and code quality (required).
- Experience designing and operating data-driven, high-uptime production systems, including microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures (required).
- Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases (required).
- Experience working with high-throughput, low-latency production systems (required).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD practices, software development workflows, and AWS cloud infrastructure (required).
- Experience working with sports data or real-time data products (nice-to-have).
- Experience in enterprise SaaS environments (nice-to-have).
- Understanding of uptime, data accuracy, and SLA commitments in customer-facing products (nice-to-have).
- Experience with serverless technologies, including AWS Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions (nice-to-have).
- Competitive salary range of USD 180,000 - USD 200,000 per annum.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Performance bonus program.
- Equity stock purchase.
- 401k contribution.
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.