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
Categories
H1B sponsorship
Sponsorship for this role is unconfirmed.
Fanatics’s past filings provide context. They do not guarantee sponsorship for a current opening.
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Job fields receiving H1B certifications
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About Fanatics
Fanatics is committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience. As a leading global sports platform, Fanatics allows fans to buy, bet, and collect while engaging with sports in deeper, more immersive ways. Fanatics is redefining how fans connect with their favorite teams and players. Through its businesses—Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, Fanatics Betting & Gaming, Fanatics Events, Fanatics Markets, and Fanatics Studios—the company has built a powerful, integrated ecosystem. By bringing together licensed fan gear, physical and digital trading cards, live events, and more, Fanatics delivers personalized experiences to over 100 million fans worldwide. Fanatics currently holds partnerships with over 900 sports properties, including professional and college teams, leagues, players’ associations, and retail partners. Fanatics also partners with over 5,000 athletes and celebrities, including 250 exclusive partnerships, and has over 2,000 retail locations. Beyond these partnerships, Fanatics has its own powerhouse team of more than 22,000 global employees.