[Hiring] Senior Principal Software Engineer @Fanatics Betting & Gaming

Role Description

We’re hiring a Senior Principal Software Engineer to own the technical strategy and architecture for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming engineering team, driving the design and development of a highly scalable, fault-tolerant online platform. You'll work on critical areas such as:

• Betting and Gaming market integration
• Risk management
• Tooling and other mobile/backed systems that deliver seamless customer experiences

This leader will drive complex cross-team initiatives, establish scalable technical patterns, improve reliability and operational excellence, and partner across Engineering, Product, and Security to ensure our most critical services are reusable, compliant, high-performing, and built to support rapid innovation.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for driving the design and development of a highly scalable, fault-tolerant online Betting and Gaming platform.
• Lead architecture for critical, cross-cutting systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and built for long-term reuse.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Platform leaders to shape priorities, sequencing, and technical trade-offs across multiple teams and domains.
• Drive the design and execution of the organization’s most complex technical initiatives, especially those spanning teams, systems, and regulatory constraints.
• Establish and elevate engineering standards, design principles, and review practices that improve quality, maintainability, and operational readiness.
• Identify and resolve systemic technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and architectural contention, guiding teams toward pragmatic, durable solutions.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical decision-making across the organization, serving as a trusted technical leader to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to set technical direction and influence architecture across multiple teams or domains.
• Outstanding system design and architectural judgment, especially in complex, high-scale environments.
• Deep experience building secure, reliable, and performant production systems.
• Track record of leading large, cross-cutting technical initiatives from design through adoption.
• Strong engineering judgment across scalability, operability, maintainability, and technical trade-offs.
• Experience building platforms, services, or frameworks that create leverage across an engineering organization.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to influence at both the technical and executive level.
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in one or more core platform domains such as identity and account systems, payments and transactions, loyalty and promotions, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
• Experience with mobile cross-platform technologies eg Kotlin Multiplatform.
• Experience thriving in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments.

Salary Range

$230,000 - $330,000 USD

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