Engineering Manager

As an Engineering Manager,you will drive engineering excellence across engineering teams for DAZN and our global streaming service! 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 able to challenge the team based on your knowledge. You can create delivery plans and monitor theprojects’ 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. As a leader, you will champion discussions across the whole DAZN as part of community-based sharing groups. A BIT ABOUT YOUR TEAMTeams are typically made up of around 5-8 Engineers, a Product Manager and an Engineering manager supported by Principal engineers. A team tends to have a flat structure as everyone brings something different and has different experiences and knowledge. Tech stack: Node.js, Typescript, AWS (ElastiCache, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Cloudwatch, S3), Terraform, Video encoding orchestration, New Relic, Docker, Selenium, Github, Jira, Jest. This role will be based in Katowice or with a mixture of Hybrid working.

As our new Engineering Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement
• Build and maintain an autonomous engineering team
• Make delivery focused and data-driven decisions to ensure we meet our commitments
• Recognise and reward success whilst building a safe environment so failures become opportunities to learn and improve
• Manage 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

You’ll be set up for success if you have:

• Passion for building teams in a collaborative, empathetic, empowering, and supportive way
• Proven experience in managing and supporting engineering teams in an Agile environment (You build it, you own it)
• Proven experience in collaborating and working with stakeholders (Business Development, Product)
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with people at all seniority levels (English required)
• Fluent in the Polish language
• Solid knowledge of backend
• Strong background in software engineering

Even better if you have:

• Experience with managing budgets
• Development or QA background
• AWS Infrastructure knowledge or certification
• Remote management of team members
• Proximity to the Katowice office

Benefits will include:

• Access to DAZN streaming service
• Annual performance-related bonus
• Annual leave increasing by 3 days after 3 years
• Private medical and dental insurance (fully financed by DAZN)
• Life assurance
• Pension scheme (Pracowniczy Program Emerytalny)
• MyBenefit platform (MultiSport and thousands of sports, culture or tourism benefits)
• Financially rewarding ‘Refer a Friend’ scheme
• Family-friendly community
• Opportunity for flexible working
• Employee Assistance Program (psychological, managerial, legal and financial counselling)
• Free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind)
• Learning and development resources
• Access to our internal speaker series and events
• High-end laptops (Macs or Windows)

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.