2 months ago
Dublin, Ireland or London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead teams developing, testing, documenting, and deploying scalable production software.
- Design and implement backend features supporting promotions, rewards, and the broader Fanatics ecosystem.
- Make short- and long-term technical and architectural trade-off decisions and resolve architecture deficiencies.
- Triage production issues, mitigate immediate risk, identify root causes, and participate in on-call support when needed.
- Lead code reviews, improve testability and operational excellence, and maintain team documentation.
- Advise technology leaders, product teams, and internal stakeholders on technology decisions.
- Mentor and coach engineers and help improve onboarding.
- Contribute to planning, requirements clarification, design discussions, estimates, and engineering best practices.
- Remain open to occasional travel for offices, conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
- Broad understanding of software design approaches and ability to triage and debug system-wide production issues.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers.
- Ability to communicate complex technical subjects to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with Agile software delivery and Scrum methodology.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptability skills.
- Preferred: experience leading a development team for at least 1 year.
- Preferred: experience with Java/Spring Boot, React, Apache Kafka, AWS, and PostgreSQL.
- Preferred: startup experience.
Benefits
- Salary range of €101,200–€126,500 EUR.
- Full-time employment includes company benefits described through Fanatics’ benefits portal.
- Occasional travel may be required, and in-person interview or onboarding components may apply depending on role and location.
- Full-time, non-seasonal hires may participate in a multi-day cultural immersion program in New York City, subject to role and location.
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About Fanatics
Fanatics is a New York–based digital sports platform that sells licensed team merchandise, trading cards, and operates a growing online sportsbook for fans. Its businesses span e-commerce for leagues and teams, manufacturing and distributing collectibles (including the Topps trading card brand), and betting and iGaming. The privately held company operates globally and powers official online stores and in-venue retail for major professional and college sports organizations.