Director, Engineering

🕒 May 11

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The Athletic

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

📱 Media

⚽ Sports

Media • Sports

The Athletic is a sports media company known for comprehensive sports coverage and in-depth reporting across various sports such as football, tennis, Formula 1, golf, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and college sports. It provides high-quality articles, live updates, and expert analysis covering significant events and players in the sports world. The platform features content on various leagues and tournaments, providing insights from well-known journalists and analysts. The Athletic aims to set the standard in sports reporting and offers subscription-based access to its content.

📋 Description

• You will be responsible for hiring additional engineers to fill out the team, with a focus on diversity and inclusion, and staffing and structuring your team to meet business needs. • Manage your team 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 and execute on roadmaps. • Brainstorm new product ideas and improvements alongside the design and product teams while also delivering clean, performant code (this role has an expectation of staying close to the codebase). • 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 both web and iOS/Android products • 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: Javascript (React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo/GraphQL), PHP (Wordpress), MySQL/DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, AWS

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s) • company-matching 401(k) plan • paid vacation • paid sick days • paid parental leave • tuition reimbursement • professional development programs