The Role
We're hiring an Engineering Manager to join the Growth Engineering team, focused on driving user acquisition, engagement, and retention across Topps, Fanatics Live, and Fanatics Collect.
This is a player-coach role, where you will spend approximately 60-80% of your time hands-on coding while also leading a small team of engineers. You will be responsible for delivering impactful growth initiatives, ensuring high-quality analytics instrumentation, and guiding the team's technical direction and execution.
You'll partner closely with product, data, and marketing stakeholders to prioritize and execute against a growth roadmap, while fostering a strong engineering culture centered on speed, quality, and accountability. This role reports to the Director of Engineering, Topps.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers to deliver growth-focused features and experiments across Topps, Fanatics Live, and Fanatics Collect.
• Contribute directly as a hands-on full stack engineer (60-80%), building and shipping features across frontend and backend systems.
• Ensure analytics data integrity and consistency across platforms, including instrumentation, validation, and tracking pipelines.
• Drive the design and implementation of experimentation frameworks (A/B testing, feature flags) to enable rapid iteration.
• Partner with product, data science, and marketing to define, prioritize, and execute on growth initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers on the team, supporting their growth and delivery.
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices for code quality, testing, observability, and performance.
• Identify and remove blockers to execution, balancing speed of experimentation with system reliability.
• Contribute to shared platform capabilities that support cross-product growth efforts.

Qualifications

• 6-10+ years of experience building and scaling modern web applications.
• Proven experience as a technical lead or team lead, with a track record of delivering through others while remaining hands-on.
• Strong proficiency in full stack development (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, or similar technologies).
• Experience implementing and maintaining analytics and tracking systems (event pipelines, attribution, instrumentation).
• Familiarity with experimentation platforms, A/B testing methodologies, and feature flagging systems.
• Strong understanding of system design, API development, and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and data teams.
• Ability to balance technical leadership with execution, thriving in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

Preferred

• Experience working on growth engineering or product growth teams.
• Familiarity with analytics tools such as Segment, Amplitude, Snowflake, or similar platforms.
• Experience building for both web and mobile surfaces.
• Exposure to consumer-facing products with high scale and rapid experimentation cycles.
• Passion for mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams.
• Interest in collectibles, live commerce, or fan engagement platforms.

The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. This salary range is specific to Los Angeles and may not be applicable to other locations. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

Los Angeles Salary Range

$162,720-$203,400 USD

The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. This salary range is specific to New York City and may not be applicable to other locations. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

NYC Salary Range

$180,000-$225,000 USD