Software Engineer II

Fanatics is a global digital sports platform focused on enhancing the fan experience. As a Software Engineer II, you will design, develop, and optimize backend systems for their digital sports platform, working on critical services that drive operations and support real-time functionalities.

Responsibilities:

• You will work closely with our internal and external development teams to deliver a stable and reliable application inline with our product roadmap and schedule
• You will evaluate new technologies and open sources to recommend improvements for applications, services and systems
• Cultural and technical champion: Improves and champions our best practices and strives to make Fanatics a better place to work as an engineer
• Build highly scalable and fault tolerant systems in a highly regulated production environment
• Continuously improve our platform by embracing best practices in software engineering
• Understand business outcomes and drive technical solutions to help achieve our goals
• Develop a fundamental understanding of our product, feature set and roadmap, and work closely with the product to make the right technology decisions to enable the team for streamlined growth and future development
• Partnering with cross-functional peers (PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Front-end engineers)
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team building activities

Requirements:

• 2-5 years of OO development experience (Java); building & deploying scalable, high-performance applications
• Experience with Spring Boot Microservices framework, and JPA is strongly preferred
• Familiar with web-related technologies (e.g. HTTP, REST, TCP / IP)
• Familiar with version control tools (e.g. Git, SVN)
• Familiar with UML, OOP, and design patterns
• Familiar with AWS services and/or GCP
• Proficiency with distributed caching and message-oriented middleware (e.g., Kafka)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience running experiments, A/B testing and optimizing for business outcomes
• Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, executives, non-technical functional leaders)
• Ability to triage and quickly debug system-wide and customer-impacting production issues
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with highly available distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and complex 3rd party integrations
• Passion for software development and system architecture and sharing knowledge within a highly collaborative team