Staff Software Engineer

Fanatics

29d

About The Position

Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is on a mission to create the best online sportsbook in the industry, and we’re looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer, Back End (Payments & Wallet) to help us get there. As a Staff Software Engineer on our Payments & Wallet team, you will play a critical leadership role in designing, evolving, and scaling the backend systems that power the financial core of our sportsbook platform. You’ll own and influence critical services that enable deposits, withdrawals, wallet management, bet placement and settlement, casino transactions, and payment provider integrations—ensuring highly reliable, secure, and correct financial operations at scale. In this role, you will drive architectural decisions, lead complex cross-team initiatives, and establish best practices for building financial systems in a highly regulated environment. Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics Holdings Inc., a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to nearly 93% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. At FBG, we’re revolutionizing sports betting with cutting-edge technology, a customer-first mindset, and a world-class engineering team. You’ll have the opportunity to tackle complex, high-scale challenges in an exciting and rapidly growing industry—all while being part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence.

Requirements

7+ years of OO development experience building scalable, high-performance backend systems (Java preferred).
Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
Experience designing systems requiring high reliability and data consistency.
Experience with Spring Boot, REST APIs, and event-driven systems.
Familiarity with AWS or GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience with Kafka or similar messaging systems.
Ability to debug complex production issues in distributed systems.
Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience leading large technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of large-scale, mission-critical systems aligned with product roadmap and long-term strategy.
Drive architectural decisions and evaluate new technologies and open-source solutions.
Cultural and technical champion: Define and enforce engineering best practices across teams.
Design and build highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and financially correct systems in a regulated environment.
Continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and performance.
Translate business outcomes into scalable technical solutions.
Develop deep understanding of product, financial systems, and roadmap.
Lead cross-team initiatives and partner with PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Risk, Fraud, and external providers.
Drive resolution of complex production issues and implement long-term fixes.
Mentor and coach engineers to raise the overall technical bar.