Engineering Manager VG Live

Job Description

Do you want to shape the future of Norway’s biggest live sport platform, VG live?

Sports team is part of Schibsted’s Media Product & Technology division and responsible for VG Live (Norway) and Aftonbladet Målservice (Sweden) services, as well as the Sports data API platform. VG Live holds the leading position for live scores and statistics in Norway, serving more than 600 000 users on major match days. Although Målservice is younger than VG live, the team aims to take the same position in Sweden.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who can lead the team shaping the live sports experience of tomorrow. The team is distributed between Oslo and Krakow and consists of 6 software engineers that would report to you, 1 Product Manager and 1 UX Designer. The sports team is a young and highly dynamic team, with an average age of under 30, composed of members from Norway, Finland, Poland, France and Spain.

Here is a taste of what you will do:

• Manage a team of Software Engineers delivering live sports services using Node.js, React, AWS and k8s
• Advocate and advance modern software development practises
• Collaborate with designer & product manager on killer features that will drive our intended outcomes
• Continuously improve both the team and yourself
• Help build robust, scalable systems and processes to ensure performance and quality
• Collaborate with both internal stakeholders, such as Aftonbladet and VG, as well as external sports data providers
• Attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent

What will make you a great candidate:

• You have a passion for sports!
• You have solid technical experience
• You are a natural networker who builds and maintains partnerships/relationships with stakeholders within the organisation
• You work actively to enable your team to achieve their goals through participative leadership and removing roadblocks
• You promote a culture of trust and transparency both within the team and towards stakeholders
• You communicate effectively and make complex ideas easy to understand
• You are able to think strategically and act tactically
• You have a positive mindset and it comes naturally to you to motivate others
• You are proficient in English
• You are able to balance tech and user value to define pragmatic yet scalable solutions

What we offer:

• 10% of working hours to be spent on personal development (typically every other Friday)
• Regular Hackathons
• Excellent equipment with a choice of laptop (Mac, Windows or Linux) and mobile phone (iPhone or Android)
• Central office locations in downtown Oslo, right beside the Stortinget and five minutes walking distance from Oslo S, and in downtown Krakow next to the main train station
• A hybrid set-up is default where you spend 2–3 days in the office and 2–3 days working from home
• International work environment
• Subsidised lunches in the Oslo on-premises cantina