Senior Engineering Manager
Katowice, Poland /
Technology – Software Engineering /
Full-Time, Permanent
/ Hybrid
Do you want to facilitate and support Software Engineers to deliver a global product that is used by millions of users daily?
As our new Engineering Manager, you will drive engineering excellence across engineering teams.
You have solid and developed technical experience, a clear progression into management and a passion for driving high-performance teams composed of outstanding engineers.
You have a strong technical curiosity, eager to learn and understand your team’s domain and are able to challenge the team based on your knowledge.
You can create delivery plans and monitor the projects’ delivery to ensure your teams successfully get their solutions into production.
You know when to challenge the team and when to let them learn from their own mistakes – to be a servant leader. You are a proven Coach and Mentor, able to grow each of your team members.
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL DO (NOT ALL OF IT, JUST THE MOST IMPORTANT STUFF)
- Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement
- Building and maintaining an autonomous engineering team
- Making delivery focused and data-driven decisions to ensure we meet our commitments
- Recognising and rewarding success whilst building a safe environment so failures become opportunities to learn and improve
- Managing the team's Compensation, Infrastructure, and Travel and Expense budgets
- Collaborate with other Engineering teams to support advance modern, software development practices and advance a great engineering culture
DO YOU HAVE THESE ESSENTIALS?
- You're passionate about building teams in a collaborative, empathetic, empowering, and supportive way
- You have proven experience in managing and supporting engineering teams in an Agile environment (You build it, you own it)
- You have experience in collaborating and working with stakeholders (Business Development, Product)
- You're an excellent communicator able to influence people at all seniority levels (English required)
NOT ESSENTIAL BUT GREAT IF YOU ALSO HAVE
- You've managed budgets before
- You've worked with distributed and remote teams
DAZN is a tech-first sport streaming platform that reaches millions of users every week. We are challenging a traditional industry and giving power back to the fans.
This is the perfect place to work for passionate and creative engineers. We use a very modern tech stack to stream sports content to millions of concurrent viewers globally across multiple platforms and devices. The architecture of DAZN is based on Micro Frontends and unifies a range of technologies in order to deliver a seamless user experience.
This is an ambitious project with a fast release cycle that has scalability not only from a user point of view but also from a developer perspective. Imagine a tech start up culture but with the security and backing from a well established content and media agency.
Our engineers work in small teams and are given freedom and autonomy when it comes to the code that they write. If you like solving technical problems then this is the place to be. We have a community that is here to help. Want to join the revolution? Learn more about us here: https://engineering.dazn.com/
Also, take a look at our Platform Engineering function here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1rVhPWjd_s
BENEFITS INCLUDE…
Benefits include medical insurance, group insurance, multisport card and flexible working arrangements. We also have a break room with PlayStation, table soccer and massage chair. You can also enjoy breakfast and fruits throughout the week.
And there’s more… you’ll have access to our online learning portal (MindTools) and be part of our Career Deal, which aims to support your continued professional development. We also have a structured management development programme and a financially rewarding ‘Refer a Friend’ scheme.
At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.
As part of our team you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.
If you're ambitious, inventive, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity and where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. We are supported by our talented Employee Resource Group communities: proud@DAZN, women@DAZN, disability@DAZN and ParentZONE.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.
Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.
We look forward to hearing from you.
