Director of Engineering – Fan Experience

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $256.9k - $302.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Gametime

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201 - 500 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

⚽ Sports

eCommerce • Entertainment • Sports

Gametime is a platform that offers last-minute ticket deals for sports, music, theater, and other live events. Users can access tickets for a wide range of events, including college football, concerts, comedy shows, theater performances, and professional sports leagues such as the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and MLS. The platform emphasizes a user-friendly experience with features like all-in pricing to avoid hidden fees and a lowest price guarantee. Gametime aims to provide an easy and affordable way for users to experience live entertainment in various cities across North America.

📋 Description

• Lead 3–4 Fan Experience engineering teams spanning full-stack and front-end engineers • Partner closely with Product Managers and Designers to move ideas from concept to production • Directly manage individual contributors and likely one or two Engineering Managers and/or Staff Engineers • Act as de facto engineering manager for teams without a dedicated EM • Run day-to-day team rituals, unblock teams, and stay hands-on in the codebase • Set standards for using frontier models, AI coding agents/harnesses, and tooling to generate, review, test, and monitor code • Hire, level, and manage performance while maintaining a high talent bar • Own and drive team roadmaps, engineering execution plans, and delivery • Identify investments in tooling, domain foundations, technical debt reduction, and AI-enabled development • Surface engineering risks and recommend mitigations • Partner with engineering leaders to improve the marketplace technically • Drive fan-facing feature velocity, quality, and business outcomes • Report to the VP of Product

🎯 Requirements

• Technically hands-on engineering leader who can write and review code, evaluate architecture and engineering tradeoffs, and act as an engineering manager when needed • Direct experience using frontier models, AI coding agents/harnesses, and modern tooling • Track record of shipping consumer-facing product features with measurable business outcomes • Strong cross-functional partnership with Product and Design • Experience managing full-stack and/or front-end engineering teams, including Engineering Managers and/or Staff-level engineers directly • Typically 8+ years in engineering, including several years managing managers or senior ICs • Track record of maintaining a consistent hiring and performance bar across multiple teams • Familiarity with SQL/analytics tools such as Datadog, Sentry, and Honeybadger • Experience leading full-stack teams owning consumer-facing web and mobile products, backend services, and APIs • Experience in a high-traffic marketplace or e-commerce environment • Strong understanding of React, React Native, backend services, APIs, and full-stack architecture • Experience with feature flags, A/B testing, and rapid experimentation • Data-driven approach to prioritization and technical trade-offs • Nice to have: experience scaling or restructuring an engineering organization • Nice to have: experience in consumer marketplaces or high-intent, high-conversion consumer apps • Nice to have: experience building or championing internal tooling/platform investments

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO • Competitive salary & equity package • Monthly Gametime credits for any event ($1,200/yr) • Medical, dental, & vision insurance • Life insurance and disability benefits • Diverse Family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility • 401k, HSA, pre-tax savings programs • Company off-sites and meet-ups • Wellness programs • Tenure recognition