About IMG Academy
IMG Academy is the world’s leading sports education brand, providing a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future while preparing them for college and for life. IMG Academy has been nationally recognized by organizations including Sports Business Journal, USA Today, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for its workplace culture, innovation, and commitment to developing people both on and off the field.

IMG Academy provides growth opportunities for student-athletes and partners through an innovative suite of on-campus and online experiences:

• Boarding school and camps, delivered on a state-of-the-art campus in Bradenton, Florida
• Online coaching through IMG Academy+, focused on personal development through the lens of sport and performance
• Online college recruiting through NCSA College Recruiting and SportsRecruits, providing industry-leading recruiting education, tools, and access to a network of more than 40,000 college coaches for student-athletes, families, club coaches, and event operators
• Elevate by IMG Academy, a performance and personal development solution that delivers mindset, leadership, and wellbeing programming to schools, colleges, and organizations through a combination of digital content and immersive experiences

Position Summary:  

The Software Engineering Manager role is responsible for leading a team of software engineers working to implement platform engineering systems. In this role, you'll combine strong technical judgment and hands on coding with a genuine passion for developing people - driving both engineering excellence and meaningful product outcomes that impact athletes' futures. You will work closely with product to negotiate the scope and shape the features to deliver business value. Members of the team are responsible for the development, maintenance, and operation of secure, highly available services consumed by other applications developed within the company. Software developed by this team is written in Go or Python, deployed via Kubernetes to AWS infrastructure, and communicates with multiple backing services (PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch. Kafka) and SaaS tools (Auth0, Shopify, Contentful).

Position Responsibilities:

People Management & Coaching

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 4 - 6 software engineers across varying experience levels
• Own the full employee lifecycle for your team: hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention
• Conduct regular 1:1s and provide direct, actionable feedback that helps engineers grow
• Work with other technical leaders to create a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

Technical Leadership

• Work across engineering teams to set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, and system design
• Participate in and guide architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable and maintainable
• Stay technically engaged enough to meaningfully review design documents, unblock engineers, and assess trade-offs — without being in the critical path of delivery
• Champion engineering best practices across the broader engineering organization
• Drive reduction of technical debt and proactively manage platform health

Delivery & Execution

• Write and work with your engineers to develop loosely coupled, well tested, and maintainable code
• Collaborate with the Product Management team to craft technical solutions that meet internal and external customer needs.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and Security teams to employ standard infrastructure components, release code with increasing volume and velocity in a self-service fashion and meet company security standard.
• Identify and remove blockers, manage dependencies across teams, and escalate risks early.
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform investments
• Provide on-call support on a rotating basis with your team (roughly 1 week per month; very low incident rate).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 5+ years minimum experience in back-end or full-stack software engineering using systems programming languages like Python or Go, with 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead role
• Experience with back-end development of distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud-based development environments (primarily AWS)
• Experience with 12-factor applications and modern development practices.
• Experience with automated infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment.
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational data stores (e.g. Redis, OpenSearch)
• Familiarity with event-driven application architecture concepts.
• Familiarity with software monitoring, telemetry, and incident response handling
• Excellent communication skills; able to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and business context for engineers.
• Experience with generative AI programming assistants a plus.
• Experience working with and applying engineering metrics to increase the effectiveness of an engineering team.
• Global compensation and benefits experience.
• Bilingual is a plus.   
• Ability to provide on-call support on a rotating basis is required.