Fullstack, Senior Software Engineer, Sportsbook - FBG

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform and is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Betting & Gaming division. In this role, you will design, develop, and optimize systems for the Sportsbook platform, ensuring a reliable application that meets product roadmaps.

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
• You are a cultural and technical champion: you improve and champion 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

Requirements:

• 7+ years of development experience building & deploying scalable, high-performance applications (Java strongly preferred)
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team building activities
• Experience with Spring Boot Microservices framework, and JPA is strongly preferred
• Proficiency with distributed caching and message-oriented middleware (Kafka 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
• 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