1 day ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and architecture for major areas of the Markets platform across teams.
- Design and deliver scalable customer experiences and backend systems, contributing hands-on across the stack.
- Lead complex initiatives from discovery and technical specifications through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Define frontend, backend API, and event-driven integration patterns for markets, orders, and transactions.
- Guide experimentation capabilities such as feature flags and A/B testing.
- Anticipate scaling constraints, reliability risks, and technical debt and drive pragmatic improvements.
- Raise engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, testing strategies, observability, and safe deployment practices.
- Mentor engineers, develop technical leaders, and improve engineering effectiveness.
- Establish standards for responsible AI-assisted development, including review expectations, security safeguards, and validation.
- Lead through influence, align cross-functional teams, and create clarity in a high-growth early-stage product environment.
Requirements
- Substantial experience building and operating highly scalable production systems with Staff-level or equivalent technical leadership scope.
- Deep expertise in user-facing JavaScript/TypeScript and React applications or backend services in Go, Java, or Python, with the ability to reason across the full stack.
- Experience setting technical direction and delivering complex initiatives from ambiguous requirements through measurable production outcomes.
- Strong architectural judgment involving system boundaries, tradeoffs, and evolving product requirements at scale.
- Experience with React architecture, component-driven development, and modern state management using tools such as Next.js, TanStack Query, Tailwind, or Zustand, or deep backend experience with data modeling, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture using Postgres and Kafka/PubSub.
- Deep knowledge of a primary programming language and experience establishing standards beyond the immediate team.
- Strong understanding of frontend performance, reliability, security, responsive design, and accessibility, or backend scalability, observability, data integrity, and failure handling.
- Experience defining API contracts and collaborating with product, platform, and infrastructure teams.
- Experience shaping CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and safe deployment practices.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, communicate technical decisions, mentor engineers, and improve team effectiveness.
- Production experience using AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Copilot with sound judgment about limitations and validation.
- Experience improving development workflows with measurable effects on delivery speed, quality, or engineering productivity.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to navigate dependencies in large enterprise environments.
- Preferred: early-stage or high-growth startup experience; real-money transaction systems involving financial correctness, auditability, and regulatory requirements; technical roadmaps or multi-team architectural changes; developer tools or engineering productivity at scale; AI-assisted engineering practices; open-source or technical community contributions; and a BSc in Computer Science or a related field.
Benefits
- Fully remote candidates based in the United Kingdom are welcome.
- Remote employees may be eligible for a home office setup stipend.
- Depending on the role, interviews or onboarding may include in-person components such as onsite interviews or a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City; requirements are confirmed by role and location.
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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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.