Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform focused on enhancing the fan experience. They are seeking a Distinguished Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy for Core Engineering’s shared platforms, driving complex initiatives and ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions across various domains.
Responsibilities:
- Set the technical direction for Core Engineering’s shared platforms across customer accounts, transactions, loyalty, and engineering foundations
- Lead architecture for critical, cross-cutting systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and built for long-term reuse
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Platform leaders to shape priorities, sequencing, and technical trade-offs across multiple teams and domains
- Drive the design and execution of the organization’s most complex technical initiatives, especially those spanning teams, systems, and regulatory constraints
- Establish and elevate engineering standards, design principles, and review practices that improve quality, maintainability, and operational readiness
- Identify and resolve systemic technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and architectural contention, guiding teams toward pragmatic, durable solutions
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical decision-making across the organization, serving as a trusted technical leader to executives and cross-functional stakeholders
Requirements:
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems
- Proven ability to set technical direction and influence architecture across multiple teams or domains
- Outstanding system design and architectural judgment, especially in complex, high-scale environments
- Deep experience building secure, reliable, and performant production systems
- Track record of leading large, cross-cutting technical initiatives from design through adoption
- Strong engineering judgment across scalability, operability, maintainability, and technical trade-offs
- Experience building platforms, services, or frameworks that create leverage across an engineering organization
- Excellent communicator with the ability to influence at both the technical and executive level
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
- Experience in one or more core platform domains such as identity and account systems, payments and transactions, loyalty and promotions, platform engineering, or developer productivity
- Experience with mobile cross-platform technologies eg Kotlin Multiplatform
- Experience thriving in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments