Engineering Manager

What are we building?

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social casino company in the world. We're building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we're always acting authentically.

Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We're taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space - ready to join us?

What's the position?

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our quickly growing product and technology teams. As an Engineering Manager, you will work as part of our team to lead a team of Engineering professionals working with Sportsbook, Trading, and Casino. The role requires an individual that's dedicated to the customer's experience, able to clearly voice and document issues and concerns within their engineering teams, and is passionate about sports. You will be responsible for empowering your team by providing the resources and autonomy needed to innovate, and offering continuous coaching to enhance their technical and professional skills. Additionally, you will play a crucial role in resolving conflicts by fostering open communication and effective solutions, while making informed decisions that drive our backend systems' reliability and scalability.

As an Engineering Manager, your responsibilities will include:

Will check in with team members, addressing impediments, and ensuring they have the resources and clarity needed to proceed with their work. This includes regular 1:1s, team stand-ups, and impromptu problem-solving sessions.

Monitoring sprint progress, adjusting priorities based on emerging needs, and ensuring work is properly scoped and estimates. This involves regular communication with product managers and stakeholders about timelines, feature updates/changes, and technical constraints.

Work closely with Product Managers to break down high-level requirements into clear, actionable features and user stories. This can include backlog grooming sessions to clarify, prioritize, and estimate the effort of stories.

Analyzing team velocity identifying bottlenecks, and refining development processes to improve efficiency. This can include sprint planning, retrospectives, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.

Participate in meetings with other engineering teams, product managers, DLs, and business stakeholders to align on cross-team objectives, discuss dependencies, and risks.

Provide real-time feedback, identifying learning opportunities, conducting career development discussions, and ensuring team members are growing in their roles.

Participate in architecture discussions (when needed) and ensure technical guidance is followed to ensure solutions align with best practices and organizational standards.

Assessing team workload, identifying staffing needs, participating in hiring processes, and managing team composition to meet delivery commitments.

Fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment, organizing team events, and ensuring team morale remains high through both challenges and successes. What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who is extremely well organized and willing to tackle problems with innovative ideas and solutions. We believe the perfect candidate isn't interested in just what we're building right now, but wants to understand where we're going and how it impacts the customer to ensure everything we create moves us closer to our goal: delivering the best customer experience.

The ideal candidate will have:.

Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in Engineering, Computer Science, or other related scientific, technical or business discipline or related experience

Minimum of three years job related experience.

Demonstrated management abilities and effective group facilitation skills.

Experience managing, mentoring, and recruiting team members.

Experience developing engineering teams, and coordinating planning and collaborating with product, design, and other engineering groups.

Experience with regulatory reporting is a huge plus

Professionalism - Ability to ethically communicate effectively in writing and verbally. Soft skills to represent the organization clearly and accurately.

Self-driven, meticulous, and ability to prioritize in a complex and fast-paced environment

A passion about all things sports betting and casino What's in it for you?

We offer our employees more than just competitive compensation. Our team benefits include:

Competitive pay and benefits

Flexible vacation allowance

Flexible work from home or office hours

Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand

Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions as part of a passionate team

Roster of Uniques

We care deeply about every interaction our customers have with us, and trust and empower our staff to own and drive their experience. Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where regardless of background or beliefs you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play. We want to celebrate you being you (we are an equal opportunity employer)