Senior Platform Engineer, Fanatics Markets - UK

The role

You will build and operate the platform underpinning exchange and trading systems. You will design software tools, cloud-native infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines to support a highly available, low-latency exchange.

What you will do

• Design, build and maintain software tools, services and automation
• Design, build and maintain highly available cloud-native infrastructure
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
• Develop load-testing environments and supporting software
• Implement team-level standards for AI-augmented development
• Identify and mitigate AI-generated code pitfalls
• Implement and maintain platform security safeguards and compliance standards
• Contribute to the system observability roadmap
• Partner with product and engineering teams to translate technical requirements
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, participate in on-call rotation, and lead incident response

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software, backend or platform engineering
• Strong software development skills
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure as code using Terraform
• High proficiency in Java and Python
• Understanding of distributed systems
• Experience building mature CI/CD pipelines and working with observability 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
• Proven ability to take ownership of complex projects
• 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 building internal developer tools, CLI applications or infrastructure automation services
• Experience developing load-testing environments, mock services or automated recovery systems
• Experience leading small project groups or “squads” within a larger team

Benefits

• Remote employees may 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.