Head Of Engineering
Press Sports App
About Us
We believe that every athlete has a story worth sharing. Our platform serves as a healthy community where athletes can comfortably self-promote their highlights and build out their sports network. Essentially, our app functions similar to Tiktok to serve the purpose of LinkedIn for athletes from all levels and sports. Press Sports is backed by top-notch investors including General Catalyst, Weekend Fund, Overline, and Sound Media Ventures. We’re growing fast and putting together a world class team to build the leading global sports social network. Check out our app today on iOS or Android!
The Role
We are looking for a passionate leader who wants to build a great team and engineering culture. You’ll be taking over the development of our react native app and will have a team of four full time outsourced developers that we can scale down as we build the team internally.
What You’ll Do
➢ Take over development from a small team responsible for our react native code end-to-end.
➢ Manage and scale our team as the company grows.
➢ A/B test for best optimal design, performance and retention of all features.
➢ Identify future areas of innovation and opportunity leveraging new technologies.
➢ Contribute to new product explorations related to video processing, machine learning, real-time communication and more.
About You
➢ You are passionate about sports and have extensive management experience.
➢ You have strong knowledge of software development fundamentals.
➢ You’ve built and maintained apps used by real people. Experience with video, feeds and messaging is a plus.
➢ You have experience integrating first and third party APIs.
➢ You have exceptional attention to detail. Seriously.
➢ You are pragmatic and can reduce complex problems down to the right balance of detail and ease of use.
➢ You’re comfortable working on both broad concepts and narrowly defined tactical solutions.
➢ You understand how to balance speed, long-term scalability and performance.
➢ You are proactive, self-organized and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
➢ You are a great collaborator and comfortable working autonomously, while keeping your team up to date.
Location
➢ Our office is at ATDC in Atlanta on the campus of Georgia Tech
➢ Remote applicants will be considered
Compensation & Commitment
➢ Competitive compensation
➢ Full-time commitment
How to Apply
Contact Conrad Cornell - Co-Founder & CEO
Email: [email hidden]