2 months ago
Base Salary
$144k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive the development, testing, documentation, and production deployment of stable, scalable software.
- Lead end-to-end technical execution of complex sportsbook features and systems from ideation through deployment and refinement.
- Guide architecture, design alignment, technical strategy, and high-impact decisions across teams.
- Develop scalable backend systems supporting sportsbook market integration, risk management, tooling, and related customer experiences.
- Lead incident resolution during the on-call rotation and improve operational metrics, observability, testability, and documentation.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor and coach engineers at all levels.
- Partner with product, design, and other stakeholders to align technical decisions with business goals and long-term scalability.
- Identify and remove project roadblocks and lead planning and design discussions.
- Travel occasionally to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience building highly scalable, performant, and evolvable backend distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Java and Spring is required.
- Experience driving backend development best practices and mentoring engineers in coding, architecture, clean code, domain-driven design, and related patterns.
- Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems.
- Experience with Agile software delivery and driving process improvements across teams.
- Ability to collaborate across diverse teams in large enterprise environments and communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred experience with Java, Spring Boot, React, Kafka, event-driven architectures, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
- Preferred background in sports, gaming, content delivery, startups, or high-growth environments.
- Ability to work across legacy and greenfield codebases, languages, and environments.
Benefits
- Full-time employment with benefits information provided through Fanatics.
- Occasional travel may be required for offices, conferences, events, meetings, and team-building.
- Interview and onboarding may include in-person components, including a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City; requirements depend on 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.