[Hiring] Manager, Software Engineering @Rush Street Interactive

Role Description

The Manager, Software Engineering is responsible for leading a team of engineers while driving delivery, quality, and operational excellence across cross-functional initiatives. This role combines people and technical leadership as well as execution accountability. Managers build high-performing teams, develop engineering talent, identify and manage risks, collaborate across functions, and ensure the reliable delivery of business outcomes. Managers balance team health, delivery execution, quality, and continuous improvement while fostering an inclusive, respectful work environment.

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain a high-performing engineering team through coaching, feedback, performance management, and development.
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional delivery teams, ensuring work is effectively planned, executed, and communicated.
• Drive accountability for quality, operational excellence, incident follow-up, and continuous improvement.
• Establish visibility into team performance through effective planning, metrics, status tracking, and stakeholder communication.
• Proactively identify and manage delivery risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and operational challenges.
• Foster collaboration across engineering, product, and other business functions to achieve shared business objectives.
• Promote engineering standards, scalable solutions, and systems-thinking approaches to problem solving, and organizational effectiveness.
• Reinforce a culture of inclusion, respect, accountability, and compliance with company policies and applicable laws.
• Perform effective resource management by maintaining a clear understanding of team capacity, current work, and planned future work.
• Demonstrate effective resource and capacity planning by proactively assessing current and future team workload, aligning staffing and hiring plans with business priorities.

Technical Leadership Competencies:

• Demonstrate sufficient technical depth to understand the systems, services, and dependencies owned by the team.
• Participate effectively in technical discussions, design reviews, architecture conversations, and pull request reviews.
• Understand and communicate trade-offs involving performance, scalability, maintainability, reliability, complexity, and cost.
• Understand system architecture, data flows, APIs, dependencies, and operational considerations within the team's domain.
• Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural concerns and escalate/address appropriately.
• Understand software delivery, production operations, monitoring, observability, incident management, and reliability fundamentals.
• Promote secure, resilient, and maintainable engineering practices.
• Partner with engineers and technical leaders to drive sound technical decision-making and long-term system health.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, software delivery, or related technical roles, including experience leading engineers, technical initiatives, or cross-functional delivery efforts.
• Experience managing software development lifecycles, stakeholder relationships, delivery planning, and operational excellence initiatives preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading software engineering teams in an agile or iterative delivery environment.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, employee development, and team building.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.
• Understanding of software architecture, APIs, distributed systems, operational practices, and software delivery lifecycles.
• Experience using metrics and data to improve delivery effectiveness, quality, and operational performance.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to identify systemic issues and implement sustainable solutions rather than isolated fixes.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and psychologically safe work environment.
• Able to travel occasionally both domestically and internationally.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation.
• Work-life balance initiatives.
• Autonomy – we embrace personal freedom and responsibility.
• Creativity – we are open to new ideas of how we can be better.
• Growth – we want you to develop personally as well as professionally.
• Top-notch professionals who are passionate about what they do.
• People-oriented environment and supportive atmosphere.

Company Description

As a rapidly growing company in an emerging industry, you’ll have a huge impact on our product and our company. We like proactive team members and strive to have a company of self-disciplined professionals who enjoy collaboration, having fun, and of course, achieving together what others believe to be improbable. We are dedicated to treating everyone with respect and to support your professional and personal growth.

Rush Street Interactive is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity and expression, marital status, family status, lifestyle, age, culture, religion, military and veteran status, citizenship, or disability.

Rush Street Interactive uses AI-assisted tools at select stages of the hiring process to enhance efficiency, consistency, and communication. AI does not make hiring decisions - final decisions are made exclusively by our recruiting and hiring teams.

Rush Street Interactive participates in E-Verify for U.S.-based positions. As required by federal law, we provide the following notices to all prospective U.S. employees:

• E-Verify Participation Notice (English/Spanish)
• Right to Work Notice (English/Spanish)