Key skills
AWSPerformance OptimizationCI/CDLeadershipCommunication
About this role
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform that ignites the passions of sports fans worldwide. The Staff Engineer will be a senior technical leader responsible for driving architectural clarity and delivering multi-team impact, ensuring systems are scalable and aligned with long-term strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Lead design and evolution of complex, distributed systems
- Define and drive multi-team architectural initiatives
- Identify long-term technical risks and proactively mitigate them
- Ensure systems meet high standards for scalability, reliability, security, and performance
- Contribute to technical strategy aligned with company-level objectives
- Own delivery of large, ambiguous, and high-impact initiatives
- Break down complex problems into actionable, measurable execution plans
- Raise the engineering bar through design reviews and technical mentorship
- Champion engineering best practices across testing, observability, CI/CD, and operational excellence
- Partner with Product, Data, Design, and Business stakeholders to align technical investments with strategic priorities
- Influence technical direction across teams without formal authority
- Provide clear tradeoff analysis and communicate decisions effectively to senior leadership
- Act as a subject-matter expert in your domain
- Drive continuous improvement of architecture, code quality, and development processes
- Lead post-incident reviews and systemic improvements
- Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, and craftsmanship
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating complex distributed systems
- Experience leading large technical initiatives spanning multiple teams
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS or equivalent)
- Expertise in system design, API design, data modeling, and performance optimization
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across an organization
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience operating in high-growth, fast-moving environments