Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack - Sportsbook (FBG)

The role

You will drive the design and development of a scalable, fault-tolerant online sportsbook platform. You will work on sportsbook market integration, risk management, tooling, and backed systems while providing technical mentorship and guiding architectural decisions.

What you will do

• Drive the development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, stable, scalable software into production
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry, product, and roadmap to shape team strategy
• Lead the end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems
• Align and streamline designs across the department
• Partner with product, design, and other stakeholders to make technical decisions
• Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation
• Identify and remove roadblocks
• Conduct and elevate code reviews
• Steer team planning and design discussions
• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant and evolvable backend distributed systems
• Proficiency in Spring and Java is a must
• Demonstrated ability to drive best practices in backend development and mentor others in effective coding and architectural strategies
• Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems
• Expertise in Agile software delivery
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments
• Excellent communication skills
• Adaptable mindset
• Team-first mentality

Nice to have

• Strong Experience in the sports industry, gaming and content delivery
• Highly effective with Java, Spring boot, React
• Expertise in messaging technologies such as Kafka with a solid understanding of event-driven architectures
• Comfortable working with Cloud Native and Infrastructure as Code, like Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform
• Ability to work in diverse codebases, both legacy and greenfield, in different languages and environments
• Background in startups or high-growth environments

Before you apply

• Interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City

About the company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics.