Staff Engineer, Sportsbook Platform
Remote - New York /
Fanatics Betting & Gaming – Engineering Sportsbook /
Salaried
/ Remote
Company Overview
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores.
As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.
The base salary range for this role is $176,000 per year - $264,000 per year, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award. In addition to the base, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, Free Shipt deliveries, and more. We’ll also give you $500 to set up your home office!
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/.
Overview
As a Staff Engineer at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you are here to span across our Sportsbook Platform Engineering teams and help lead from a technical perspective. This role reports to the Senior Manager of Engineering responsible for the betting platform that supports our customer-facing applications. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining the software to provide Fanatics Betting and Gaming the capability to push content to the front-end applications, accept bets, and settle bets. The Staff Software Engineer will be an expert technologist with experience in highly scalable, highly available backend server software. This platform is a distributed microservice architecture which spans both the AWS Cloud as well as on-premises environments for regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- You will work closely with our internal and external development teams to deliver a stable and reliable application inline with our product roadmap and schedule.
- You will define best practices, frameworks and ensure they are properly deployed within the platform.
- You will work on complex integrations between various companies and 3rd parties as well as deliver platforms and solutions to provide value to our end users and other engineering teams.
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of progressive experience in engineering lead experience
- Experience building highly available platforms and services
- Effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, executives, non-technical functional leaders).
- Cultural and technical champion: Improves and champions our best practices and strives to make Fanatics a better place to work as an engineer.
- Ability to triage and debug system-wide production issues.
- Building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems in a highly regulated production environment.
- Understand business outcomes and drive technical solutions to help achieve our goals.
- Familiarity with: Object oriented programming languages, highly available distributed systems, event-driven architecture, complex 3rd party integrations.
- Partnering with cross-functional peers (PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Front-end engineers)
- Passionate about working in a highly collaborative team environment
If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply
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Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.
Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.
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