Engineering Manager, Balance and Ledger - Core

The role

You will lead an engineering team that builds the Balance and Ledger platform. This role involves managing backend engineers to develop the shared ledger and customer-level balance for customer funds.

What you will do

• Lead an engineering team that owns the ledger and balance services for customer funds.
• Drive operational excellence for security, reliability, observability, and on-call practices.
• Lead the phased migration of existing business wallets onto the shared ledger.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, and Compliance on fund attribution, settlement, and audit requirements.
• Identify and resolve technical and operational risks.
• Build and maintain a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Define and execute a roadmap balancing new capabilities, migration, and technical health.
• Deliver maintainable, scalable software for high transaction volume.
• Review designs and take part in architectural decisions.
• Communicate with engineers, Product, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and executive stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
• Track record of delivering secure, scalable systems in regulated or high-stakes environments.
• Understanding of transactional consistency, idempotency, and data modeling.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message streaming platforms such as Kafka.
• Experience leading migrations of live, high-traffic systems with minimal customer impact.
• Ability to balance strategic direction with technical depth.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across departments.
• Experience working through complex, cross-functional, and regulatory challenges.
• Commitment to operational excellence and building trustworthy systems.
• Passion for mentoring and developing engineers.

Nice to have

• Background leading teams or contributing in a Java and AWS ecosystem
• Experience with ledgers, wallets, balance services, payments, or other financial systems of record

Benefits

• base and bonus

Before you apply

• Interview and onboarding 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 & Gaming (FBG) is on a mission to create the best online sportsbook in the industry.