Software Engineering Manager

Rush Street Interactive (NYSE: RSI) is a market leader in online casino and sports betting, currently operating real-money gaming with our brands: BetRivers.com, PlaySugarHouse.com, and RushBet.co. We’re building bridges between online, social and land-based gaming businesses to create amazing, integrated experiences that keep players in the game.

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.

What You'll Bring:

• 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

Autorización para el Tratamiento de Datos Personales – Candidatos

En cumplimiento de la Ley 1581 de 2012, del Decreto 1377 de 2013 y demás regulaciones aplicables en materia de protección de datos personales en Colombia, actuando de manera libre, voluntaria y espontánea, en mi condición de titular de los datos personales que por este medio se recolectan, manifiesto lo siguiente:

1. Autorizo de manera previa, clara, expresa e informada a: (i) Rush Street Interactive Colombia S.A.S. (en adelante “RSI”), sociedad legalmente constituida de conformidad con las normas colombianas, identificada con NIT. 901.135.239-1, con domicilio en la ciudad de Bogotá D.C., (ii) a quien represente en el futuro sus derechos, sucesores o cesionarios de esta, (iii) a sus controlantes, subsidiarias y afiliadas, (iv) así como a las demás empresas que conformen el Grupo Rush Street Interactive a nivel internacional (en adelante “Grupo RSI”); para tratar mis datos personales conforme con lo establecido en la Política de Tratamiento de Datos Personales de RSI y las demás políticas y programas de RSI que regulen la materia.

2. _En ese sentido, mediante la presente, doy mi autorización previa, clara, expresa e informada a RSI para recolectar, almacenar, compilar, procesar, distribuir, usar, circular, mantener la disponibilidad, acceder, suprimir, actualizar, transmitir y/o transferir nacional y/o internacionalmente, y en general, directa o indirectamente dar tratamiento a toda mi información personal que revele en el proceso de reclutamiento y selección, y toda aquella que deba en el futuro revelar a RSI y a otras empresas del Grupo RSI o sean directamente obtenidos por RSI mediante la práctica de visitas domiciliarias, estudios de antecedentes y/o exámenes médicos, entre otros, como por ejemplo, nombre, número de documento de identidad, edad, fecha de nacimiento, dirección, correo electrónico, celular, sexo, nacionalidad, idioma, datos de contacto mediante redes sociales como LinkedIn, información relacionada con mi educación y/o historial de empleo, entorno familiar, incluyendo eventualmente datos sensibles tales como, pero sin limitarse, a fotografías, videos e información médica, para las siguientes finalidades:

   (i) Solicitar la hoja de vida y documentos anexos para su evaluación dentro del proceso de reclutamiento y selección; (ii) Comunicarse por cualquier medio de contacto suministrado cuando se requiera para continuar con el proceso de selección; (iii) Verificar antecedentes, información personal, experiencia laboral y profesional como parte del proceso de selección; (iv) Contar con un registro de las personas que se presentaron en cada proceso de selección y sus resultados; (v) Reportar información a las autoridades competentes en caso de que se requerido; (vi) Verificar la información en cumplimiento de regulaciones vigentes como la relacionada con los requerimientos para la prevención del lavado de activos y la financiación del terrorismo; (vii) Mantener y disponer de la información en bases de datos en las que RSI pueda contactarse conmigo para otros procesos de selección; y (viii) Cualquier otra finalidad directamente relacionada con los procesos de reclutamiento y selección que adelante RSI._

3. Igualmente, declaro entender y aceptar que el tratamiento de mis datos personales por parte de RSI se podrá realizar desde las plataformas tecnológicas que disponga el Grupo RSI a nivel internacional tales como, pero sin limitarse, a Greenhouse y Checkr, las cuales serán administradas funcionalmente por terceros nacionales o extranjeros, encargados y/o sub encargados del tratamiento, de conformidad con la legislación aplicable.

What Makes Us Great:

• 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

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.

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