Director-level engineering role at The Athletic leading full-stack teams across web, iOS, Android, backend, and APIs. Fully remote. Focused on strategy, roadmaps, and people management — no salary listed.
About the Role
About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced engineering director to grow and lead our team of engineers working on our products. The team works closely with our other product teams, and we’re looking for an engineering leader who can excel at defining our strategy, translating that strategy into staffing and technical roadmaps, and then grow and manage the team to execute on those roadmaps. Your team will build across all our platforms, including web, iOS and Android. Your team of engineers will be working on every part of the stack: web, backend, API, database, analytics.
Required Skills
API Development
Mobile Development
Strategic Thinking
Team Leadership
Project Management
Nice to Have
SQL
