Staff Platform Engineer, Fanatics Markets - UK

The role

You will define the technical direction of the platform underpinning exchange and trading systems. You will lead the design and evolution of infrastructure and platform standards to support a highly available, low-latency exchange.

What you will do

• Lead the design and development of software tools, services and automation.
• Define and evolve the architecture of highly available cloud-native infrastructure.
• Set technical direction for CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling.
• Lead the development of load-testing environments and supporting software.
• Establish and evolve standards for AI-augmented development.
• Identify and mitigate AI-generated code pitfalls.
• Guide the design and implementation of platform security safeguards and compliance standards.
• Shape the system observability roadmap and lead improvements to monitoring, tracing, alerting and automated recovery.
• Partner with exchange, product and engineering leads to resolve architectural trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers across experience levels and lead technical design discussions.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in software, backend or platform engineering.
• Track record of leading complex technical projects and delivering production software and scalable, cloud-native environments.
• Deep software development expertise to independently design, build, test and deploy services or substantial tools.
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• High proficiency in Java and Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems.
• Experience shaping CI/CD and observability approaches with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog.
• Strong proficiency in using AI collaborators such as Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot.
• Ability to evaluate AI-generated code for security gaps or architectural errors.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into a clear technical direction.
• Strong communication skills.

Nice to have

• Go is a plus
• Experience in high-growth startup environments
• Experience with financial systems, exchanges, real-money transactions or regulatory compliance
• Background in designing and building internal developer platforms, tools, CLI applications or infrastructure automation services
• Experience developing load-testing environments, mock services or automated recovery systems
• Experience leading technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or evolving platform architecture

Benefits

• Remote employees may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

About the company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company offers products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.