Engineering Manager
- Compensation
- $80K–$110K / yr
- Location
- Paris office
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3+ years managing engineers as an Engineering Manager, after a solid run as a backend or platform engineer. You've managed underperformance to resolution, not only coached strong performers.
- A real technical foundation in backend and distributed systems. You don't need to write Go every day, but you can read an RFC on a search index or a Kafka topology and spot what's wrong.
- You've led a team through a significant architectural change while still delivering for customers.
- Initiative beyond your scope: examples of problems you owned across teams without being asked.
- Clear written communication. At ScorePlay, decisions are made in writing.
- A builder first. You've managed and you understand management in depth, but your instinct is to build and simplify, not to add layers and complexity.
- You've made a team measurably faster: shorter cycles, fewer hand-offs, more done by fewer people.
- Bonus: experience in a scale-up with 10–50 engineers, or on video, media or storage-heavy products.
Full description
ScorePlay is the AI-powered media infrastructure for sports, built to automate the content operations behind the world's biggest sports organizations. We work with 300+ leagues, competitions, teams and broadcasters – including Ligue 1 and Premier League clubs, NBA and NFL teams, the Tour de France, the Australian Open, and leading bodies like UEFA and FIBA – helping them turn every moment on and off the field into high-value, structured content. Our platform brings all their media into one place and makes it effortless to find, edit and share in seconds.
Founded in 2021, we’re a 50-person team based between New York and Paris, growing 2x year over year with 98% retention. We’ve raised $20M+ from top investors including Alexis Ohanian and Harry Stebbing’s 20VC and elite athletes like Kevin Durant, Raphaël Varane, Mario Götze, Nico Rosberg and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
If you’re passionate about sports and thrive in fast-paced environments - and you want to help shape how the next generation of fans experience sports, you’re in the right place. We’re on track to become the global leader in sports media, and this is definitely the best time to join our adventure.
⚙️ The role
ScorePlay is the platform major sports organizations use to manage, search and share their media, from the second it's captured to the moment it reaches everyone's screen. A photographer uploads thousands of shots after the final whistle. A live feed has to be logged and clipped into highlights while the game is still being played. The right assets have to reach 10,000+ athletes, partners and newsrooms worldwide, automatically. At 145M+ minutes of video ingested every month and 15+ petabytes stored, much of the architecture needed at that scale simply hasn't been built before.
We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead one of our product engineering teams. You'll report to the Head of Engineering and sit on the engineering leadership team.
This is a technical role. You'll need a deep understanding of how our systems work to prioritize well and propose the right technical solutions. Shipping code isn't your main priority, though. Your main priorities are building the environment that lets your team ship faster, the quality of its technical decisions, the people you grow, and the problems you solve before they become incidents. Understanding how everything works is a must. Shipping code is extra.
🔥 Why this is interesting
This is a rare chance to work where engineering meets sports. You'll help build a unique, state-of-the-art product whose engineering challenges come from data volume and latency. Content has to be ingested, processed, searched and distributed at petabyte scale, often while the match is still being played. When the whistle blows, the platform has to be fast, and it has to hold.