Manager Software Engineering - NBC Sports Next
Manager Software Engineering - NBC Sports Next
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Job Description
The NBC Sports Next Youth and Recreational Sports group is currently seeking a manager of software engineering to work with and lead a team of other software engineers to deliver projects and systems critical to the NBC Sports Next business. You will take part in product strategy establish project plans and work with engineering teams across NBC Sports Next to further our product vision improve our engineering practices and enhance the safety experience for youth and recreational sports.
Job Duties
- Lead and inspire the engineering team fostering a culture of innovation accountability collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Promote diversity and inclusion within the team creating an environment that welcomes different perspectives and encourages shared success.
- Contribute to the design development testing deployment maintenance and enhancement of highly reliable and secure services that support millions of users in cloudhosted environments.
- Collaborate with software engineers during code reviews to ensure highquality scalable and effective solutions.
- Drive strategic initiatives ensuring alignment between engineering efforts and company goals. Work with Product Managers Quality Engineers and crossfunctional teams to deliver usercentric software and outstanding customer experiences.
- Optimize development processes by implementing best practices and identifying opportunities for process improvements. Participate in Agile ceremonies including standups retrospectives and planning sessions to drive team efficiency.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues quickly ensuring minimal disruption to users while ensuring the scalability and performance of systems through collaboration with architects and senior engineers.
- Support career development by identifying growth opportunities providing coaching on complex technical and design challenges and encouraging learning and development for team members. Manage the development and growth of engineers by setting clear achievable goals.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure projects meet high standards of quality reliability and security and are delivered on schedule.
- Provide timely actionable feedback to team members using specific examples and metrics to ensure continuous improvement.
- Manage resources effectively by ensuring appropriate workload distribution and efficient use of the teams capabilities.
- Contribute to recruitment efforts by identifying and hiring candidates who are the best fit for the team ensuring alignment with the teams culture needs and longterm success while actively working to remove obstacles to productivity.
- Lead strategic decisionmaking around technology choices and infrastructure by collaborating with lead and senior engineers to ensure systems are scalable performant and secure.
- Promote a culture of collaboration and engagement encouraging open communication and teamwork to support a highperforming engineering environment.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications
- A bachelors degree in Computer Science or a relevant discipline.
- A minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer working in a backend or fullstack capacity.
- Professional experience in Ruby on Rails Typescript Angular and building GraphQL APIs for external integrators.
- Experience managing a small to large team working on enterprise software particularly leading backend services and API integration projects.
- An understanding of current software design patterns and principles.
- 5 years of experience and understanding in computer science fundamentals including objectoriented design data structures algorithm design problem solving and complexity analysis.
- Experience with a variety of data stores including SQL/RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with Git source code control management and branching strategies.
- Experience with designing and implementing APIs microservices and/or serviceoriented architectures with a focus on scalability security and usability for external partners.
- Working knowledge of common networking infrastructure and technical security fundamentals.
- Cloud experience with AWS and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes in deploying and managing backend services and APIs.
Desired Qualifications
- Deep passion for software development with a comprehensive understanding of the entire software life cycle from design and architecture through development testing and delivery.
- Proven leadership experience with the ability to manage and grow engineering teams while fostering an inclusive collaborative and innovative environment.
- Highly collaborative team player motivated to succeed while helping others achieve their goals. Enthusiastic about learning teaching and mentoring with a commitment to fostering growth within the engineering team.
- Eager to explore new technologies continuously pushing the boundaries of knowledge and open to new ideas and feedback to drive innovation.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders ensuring alignment across teams.
- Experience with Agile methodologies with a track record of successfully delivering projects on time.
- Openminded and receptive to innovative approaches ideas and feedback.
- Analytical mindset capable of troubleshooting complex issues and providing clear direction and solutions to the team.
- Proactive problemsolver who independently takes initiative to resolve issues effectively while anticipating potential challenges.
- Strong business acumen ensuring technical decisions are aligned with broader company goals and strategy.
Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a nonNBCUniversal worksite most commonly an employees residence.
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to .
For LA County and City Residents Only: NBCUniversal will consider for employment
qualified applicants with criminal histories or arrest or conviction records in a manner
consistent with relevant legal requirements including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance
Initiative For Hiring Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act where applicable.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
