[Hiring] Software Engineer III, Back End (Payments & Wallet) @Fanatics Betting & Gaming

Role Description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is on a mission to create the best online sportsbook in the industry, and we’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer III, Back End (Payments & Wallet) to help us get there.

As a Software Engineer III on our Payments & Wallet team, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing the backend systems that power the financial core of our sportsbook platform. You’ll work on critical services that enable:

• Deposits
• Withdrawals
• Wallet management
• Bet placement and settlement
• Casino transactions
• Payment provider integrations

At FBG, we’re revolutionizing sports betting with cutting-edge technology, a customer-first mindset, and a world-class engineering team. You’ll have the opportunity to tackle complex, high-scale challenges in an exciting and rapidly growing industry—all while being part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence.

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.
• Cultural and technical champion: Improve and champion our best practices and strive to make Fanatics a better place to work as an engineer.
• Build highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems in a highly regulated production environment.
• Continuously improve our platform by embracing best practices in software engineering.
• Understand business outcomes and drive technical solutions to help achieve our goals.
• Develop a fundamental understanding of our product, feature set, and roadmap, and work closely with the product to make the right technology decisions to enable the team for streamlined growth and future development.
• Partner with cross-functional peers (PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Front-end engineers).
• Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

Qualifications

• 2-6 years of OO development experience building & deploying scalable, high-performance applications (Java strongly preferred).
• Experience with Spring Boot Microservices framework, and JPA is strongly preferred.
• Familiar with web-related technologies (e.g. HTTP, REST, TCP / IP).
• Familiar with version control tools (e.g. Git, SVN).
• Familiar with UML, OOP, and design patterns.
• Familiar with AWS services and/or GCP.
• Proficiency with distributed caching and message-oriented middleware (e.g., Kafka).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• 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

$137,750 — $156,000 USD