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.
About the Team
Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. Backed by world-class investors, operators, and sports & entertainment partners, we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators.
Role Summary
Fanatics Live is building the future of live commerce for sports fans and collectors, bringing together content, community, and commerce in highly interactive digital experiences.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate the web and software experiences that power Fanatics Live. You’ll independently own meaningful product and technical problems, partnering closely with Product, Design, and other engineers to take ideas from concept through production.
You’ll have the opportunity to work across complex consumer experiences and help build software that remains fast, reliable, and engaging even during our biggest moments.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, test, deploy, and operate high-quality software supporting Fanatics Live.
- Independently own significant features, services, and technical projects from design through production.
- Build scalable frontend, backend, API, or full-stack solutions supporting live commerce, discovery, community, and transactional experiences.
- Translate product requirements and customer needs into thoughtful technical designs and implementation plans.
- Solve complex engineering problems involving architecture, performance, reliability, scalability, data, and integrations.
- Partner closely with Product and Design to shape solutions and deliver compelling customer experiences.
- Build software capable of performing reliably during high-traffic events, launches, and rapidly changing demand.
- Contribute actively to architecture discussions, technical designs, code reviews, and engineering planning.
- Improve application performance, observability, automated testing, deployment safety, and production reliability.
- Diagnose complex production issues and drive them through root-cause analysis and resolution.
- Identify technical debt and opportunities to simplify, modernize, or improve existing systems.
- Contribute to shared engineering standards, reusable components, APIs, libraries, and development practices.
- Mentor other engineers through technical collaboration, design discussions, and code reviews.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production applications.
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and frameworks used to build web applications and services.
- Significant experience with modern web application architecture, APIs, distributed systems, cloud services, or full-stack development.
- Experience independently delivering substantial technical projects or customer-facing product features.
- Strong understanding of software design, testing, debugging, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Ability to diagnose complex application and production problems using logs, metrics, tracing, and systematic troubleshooting.
- Strong technical judgment and an ability to make appropriate tradeoffs between delivery speed, maintainability, performance, and reliability.
- Experience collaborating effectively with product managers, designers, engineers, and other technical partners.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to other engineers.
Nice to Have
- Experience with consumer-facing marketplaces, e-commerce, live streaming, social/community products, auctions, payments, or other high-traffic applications.
- Experience with real-time communication or event-driven architectures.
- Experience building applications that experience significant traffic spikes around launches or live events.
- Experience optimizing consumer web applications for performance and reliability.
- Fanatics’ architecture places Software Engineering within the Technology job family and distinguishes Senior and Staff as separate levels within the technical individual-contributor career path.
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