[Hiring] Fullstack, Software Engineer II, Sportsbook - FBG @Fanatics Betting & Gaming

Role Description

As a Software Engineer III at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you are here to play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing the systems that power our Sportsbook platform. You’ll work on critical services that drive the entire betting ecosystem—handling trading data, enabling seamless bet placement and settlement, and building internal tooling to support real-time trading operations.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with internal and external development teams to deliver a stable and reliable application inline with our product roadmap and schedule.
• Evaluate new technologies and open sources to recommend improvements for applications, services, and systems.
• Serve as a cultural and technical champion, improving and championing best practices to enhance the work environment.
• Build highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems in a highly regulated production environment.
• Continuously improve the platform by embracing best practices in software engineering.
• Understand business outcomes and drive technical solutions to help achieve goals.
• Develop a fundamental understanding of the product, feature set, and roadmap, working closely with the product team for streamlined growth and future development.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of development experience building & deploying scalable, high-performance applications (Java strongly preferred).
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team building activities.
• Experience with Spring Boot Microservices framework and JPA is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency with distributed caching and message-oriented middleware (Kafka preferred).
• Familiarity with version control tools (e.g. Git, SVN).
• Familiarity with UML, OOP, and design patterns.
• Familiarity with AWS services and/or GCP.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM methodologies and working in cross-functional teams.
• Ability to navigate shifting priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth setting.
• Strong technical skills in a CI/CD environment, with a working knowledge of software design principles related to performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Experience running experiments, A/B testing, and optimizing for business outcomes.
• Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, executives, non-technical functional leaders).
• Ability to triage and quickly debug system-wide and customer-impacting production issues.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with highly available distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and complex 3rd party integrations.
• Passion for software development and system architecture and sharing knowledge within a highly collaborative team.

Salary Range

$95,000 — $156,000 USD