Frontend Engineering Manager

Place of work: Zagreb Office (on-site)

ABOUT SOFASCORE

Sofascore is a leading provider of advanced sports insights and the benchmark for fastest live scores. Some tell stories with words, and we tell ours with numbers. 

We developed a mobile app and a website that covers over 20,000 tournaments in 25 sports in 40+ languages. Our goal is to give sports fans superior insights about their favorite player, club, league, or competition.

The info we provide — whether it's results, stats, or data, is delivered as it unfolds, so you never miss a beat. It's your seat at the world's biggest stadium. 🏟️

Sofascore team counts more than 300 experts, primarily in our homecourt in Croatia but also worldwide. 🇭🇷 🌐

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Frontend Team is one of the teams that makes our product visible and usable for over 25 million monthly active users worldwide. Therefore, we're looking for  an experienced Frontend Engineering Manager, who would take care of operational management of the Frontend Team and strategically collaborate with other departments. 

Your purpose

Defining and managing the software development process within Sofascore. Scaling and managing teams in the software development department through planning employment needs, creating employee development plans and monitoring their performance in daily work.

Key responsibilities

• Team management
• Administrative management of the team
• Development of applications and software solutions
• Collaboration and cooperation

What you bring to the team

• 2+ years of experience in the Frontend Engineering Manager position, Frontend Team Lead position or similar
• Your passion is working with people and making sure they are satisfied with their work
• A strong technical background of development experience with Frontend technologies, preferably TypeScript, React, NextJS
• Excellent organisational, multitasking and time management skills
• High quality verbal and written communication skills
• A sense of ownership, urgency, and pride in your work.
• Bonus points for:
  • Experience in managing multiple or cross-functional teams
  • Experience in mentoring future Engineering Managers or Team Leads

What we offer

• Competitive salary range
• Excellent work-life balance
  • Enviable number of vacation days
  • Flexible working hours
• Family benefits package
• Education - internal and through international conferences and workshops
• Top quality equipment
  • MacBook Pro
  • Budget for Mobile phone
• Paid package of general physical examination once a year
• 10% of your weekly time to work on anything you want
• Numerous other benefits that we would verbally communicate to you

Sounds good? It gets even better.

Send us your CV in English or Croatian

Looking forward to hearing from you. Let’s get the ball rolling! 🔥