Staff Software Engineer, (Java/Spring Boot)

Job Description

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. Overview As Fanatics Betting & Gaming propels Fanatics' mission to create the ultimate digital sports platform, the Staff Engineer role stands at the forefront of this transformative journey. Your leadership extends beyond traditional boundaries, influencing multiple teams and shaping the systems that drive both FBG's products and the wider Fanatics ecosystem. With a focus on our real-time decision-making platform, your work ensures that we're not only meeting but setting new standards for fan engagement and product excellence. Your role is a unique blend of strategy and hands-on innovation, inspiring teams to push the envelope and create groundbreaking technologies. In fostering a culture of innovation, you'll navigate teams through the complexities of modern software development, championing a learning-oriented environment that bolsters both personal and collective growth. Your mentorship will cultivate the next generation of tech leaders, ensuring that FBG's engineering practices continue to evolve and surpass industry benchmarks. Embrace the opportunity to make an indelible mark on the sports industry as a Staff Engineer at FBG. Your leadership will catalyze our ongoing quest to revolutionize sports fan engagement, leaving a lasting legacy of innovation and a fan-centric approach that echoes across the sports world.

Responsibilities

• Advise teams that develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production
• You may lead strategically important projects involving multiple teams to deliver solutions that are exemplary in terms of robustness, stability, scalability, cost effectiveness
• Influence teams within your department to drive clarity and aligning teams toward simple, coherent designs
• Participate in incident calls when needed to troubleshoot software issues
• Quickly identify when to troubleshoot or escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks, find a path forward in difficult situations
• Mitigate immediate risk, identify and resolve root causes
• Remove bottlenecks and make technical and design approach trade-off decisions: opportunity vs. architectural
• Lead design decisions around vertical systems architecture and/or product solutions, driving best practices and improving the speed of delivery
• Provide constructive direction to more junior engineers via daily code reviews
• Proactively simplifies code and resolves team architecture deficiencies
• Significantly Impacts software architecture, dependencies, performance, and business value
• Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation
• Advise technology leaders, our product team, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
• Mentor and act as a role model to other engineers within the department
• May engage externally to represent the company through tech talks, white papers, or community projects
• Set the standard for engineering excellence across the department, influencing your team's adherence to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy
• Develop a solid understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
• Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems
• Fluency with Java and Spring/Spring Boot
• Experience migration at least one monolithic platform to microservices
• You have mastery of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different teams
• You are able to triage and debug system-wide production issues
• Demonstrated experience mentoring other engineers
• Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders)
• Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• You have an agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly
• Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
• Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a start-up environment
• 4+ years of experience designing robust, stable, scalable, cost effective platforms
• Prior experience with payments and fraud
If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!

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