Senior Software Engineer

About Us Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering 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 approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally. Architect and lead the end-to-end design of large-scale, multi-tier distributed systems, including authoring technical specs, conducting architecture/design reviews, and ensuring integration, performance, and scalability across services; Design and operate fault-tolerant, low-latency systems at internet scale, including data partitioning/sharding and consistency strategies, and recovery mechanisms (e.g., idempotent processing, backpressure) to meet strict availability and p99 latency objectives; Define and enforce SLOs/error budgets and lead Sev-1 incident response and postmortems; build org-wide observability (metrics, traces, logs) and resilience patterns (circuit breaker, retries/backoff, bulkheads) for cloud-native microservices; Performance engineering and capacity planning for microservices on public cloud (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure): load modeling, profiling bottlenecks, optimizing algorithms/data structures, and making cost/performance trade-offs across regions; Be responsible for the sports betting platform in its entirety and build and maintain the many services that make up the platform; Work on projects and features with customers, stakeholders and peers while balancing customer requirements with team requirements; Work closely with our internal and external development teams to deliver a stable and reliable application in line with our product roadmap and schedule; Be proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them and when it is not; Help the team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews; Be proficient with Java technologies and ensure that the team is using best practices and guidelines, and design patterns. Partial telecommuting permitted; on-site at 61 9th Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10011 when not telecommuting. Salary: $261,248 - $271,248 per year. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s Degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or any occupation, job title, or position performing code review, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews. In lieu of a Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of experience, the employer will accept a Master's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, plus 3 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or any occupation, job title, or position performing code review, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews. Must also have experience in the following: 3 years of professional experience designing and maintaining scalable, service-oriented architectures to support a full-featured sports betting platform; 3 years of professional experience building and deploying backend services using Java technologies, applying industry best practices, design patterns, and development standards; 3 years of professional experience implementing solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams including stakeholders, customers, and external partners; 3 years of professional experience participating in code reviews, team planning, and engineering metrics reviews to support team growth and code quality; 3 years of professional experience maintaining production-grade applications with a focus on system reliability, performance, and scalability; 3 years of professional experience supporting development teams by leading discussions on design, code quality, and technology adoption; 3 years of professional experience implementing continuous integration and deployment pipelines to support a stable and reliable product delivery lifecycle. 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