2 months ago
Base Salary
$240k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set long-term architecture strategy for the event-driven platform and reduce systemic technical debt.
- Lead strategically critical initiatives spanning multiple teams and verticals over multi-quarter timelines.
- Establish reusable patterns and trade-off frameworks for building, operating, and scaling systems.
- Serve as the escalation point for complex distributed-systems problems and high-stakes incidents.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders and raise the organization’s technical standards.
- Partner with product and business leaders to define technical strategy and build consensus.
- Set standards for testing, observability, incident response, and platform resilience.
- Represent the organization through technical writing, conference talks, and open-source contributions.
Requirements
- 15+ years of overall software engineering experience, including 10+ years operating at Senior Staff level or above and owning technical design for large, cross-team projects.
- Experience leading multi-team or multi-vertical programs over multiple quarters with minimal oversight.
- Ability to identify business-critical problems and build the case for new investment independently.
- Track record of creating technical patterns or standards adopted by other teams.
- Experience mentoring Staff and Senior Staff engineers toward technical leadership.
- Strong experience leading through incidents and operational risk with a focus on systemic hardening.
- Excellent communication and consensus-building skills across engineering, business, and executive stakeholders.
- Preferred: experience with payments, identity, loyalty, regulated gaming or fintech environments, organizational convergence, platform consolidation, large-scale architectural migration, SOX, PCI, or similar control frameworks.
Benefits
- Full-time employment includes base salary and bonus eligibility.
- Benefits information is provided through Fanatics’ benefits portal.
- Compensation varies by country and state through Fanatics’ geographical compensation zones.
- The interview and onboarding process may include in-person components, including a multi-day New York City cultural immersion session; requirements depend on role and location.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaRedis
Categories
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.