[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer @Fanatics Betting & Gaming

Role Description

We’re hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer , CAT to drive the technical strategy, architecture and delivery of our customer accounts and transactions platform — including identity and authentication, wallet and ledger, deposits and withdrawals, and eligibility and fraud detection. You'll work with cross-functional engineering teams (FE, BE, SEMs, TPM, QE, Platform), improve operational excellence (on-call/rota, incident response and SLAs), and partner with Product, Compliance and Risk to make account and payment experiences secure, scalable and fast to market.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of large-scale, mission critical systems aligned with product roadmap and long-term strategy.
• Drive architectural decisions and evaluate new technologies and open-source solutions.
• Cultural and technical champion: Define and enforce engineering best practices across teams.
• Design and build highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and financially correct systems in a regulated environment.
• Continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and performance.
• Translate business outcomes into scalable technical solutions.
• Develop a deep understanding of product, financial systems, and roadmap.
• Lead cross-team initiatives and partner with PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Risk, Fraud, and external providers.
• Drive resolution of complex production issues and implement long-term fixes.
• Mentor and coach engineers to raise the overall technical bar.
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of OO development experience building scalable, high-performance backend systems (Java preferred).
• Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience designing systems requiring high reliability and data consistency.
• Experience with Spring Boot, REST APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with AWS or GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging systems.
• Ability to debug complex production issues in distributed systems.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading large technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience thriving in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments.

Salary Range

$152,000 — $190,000 USD