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About the Role

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the platforms and services that power the Fan Ecosystem, connecting fans to every Fanatics product and experience. This hands-on, full-stack role has a backend center of gravity, focusing on building high-throughput, high-availability services in Go, with contributions to TypeScript/React front ends.

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, document, and operate high-quality, production-grade software with a focus on Go services and APIs
Own the technical design of medium-to-large features and systems, defining the approach, weighing trade-offs, documenting decisions, and driving them to completion
Break down ambiguous problems into well-scoped, deliverable work for yourself and other engineers
Lead and participate in design and architecture reviews, providing clear, constructive feedback
Set the standard in code reviews for correctness, readability, testability, and operational safety
Mentor and grow engineers on the team, onboard new hires, and act as a technical point of contact for systems
Participate in and improve the on-call rotation, instrumenting services, driving incident response, and leading blameless postmortems
Improve reliability, performance, and cost of owned systems, defining and acting on SLOs and operational excellence metrics
Identify and pay down technical debt, and make the case for necessary investments
Partner closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to shape the roadmap and make technology decisions
Influence and help define engineering strategy principles, guidelines, and best practices
Develop a deep understanding of the industry, product, feature set, and roadmap to make better technical decisions

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems
Strong, demonstrated proficiency in Go (Golang), including experience building and shipping production services
Proven experience designing, building, and scaling backend services and APIs (REST and/or gRPC) in a distributed, microservices environment
Demonstrated proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript, and experience with React or another modern front-end framework
Solid grounding in data stores and messaging: relational and/or NoSQL databases, caching, and event streaming (e.g. Kafka, SQS/SNS)
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containers, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code
Strong operational instincts: observability, monitoring, alerting, debugging production issues under pressure
Track record of leading projects with multiple contributors and delivering them on time without sacrificing quality
Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment
Experience building or integrating with identity and access management systems
Hands-on familiarity with identity standards and protocols: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT, MFA, session and token lifecycle management
Experience with identity providers and CIAM platforms (e.g. Okta, Auth0, ForgeRock, AWS Cognito, Ping) or with building an in-house identity platform
Experience with account security, fraud prevention, PII handling, or regulatory/compliance-driven engineering (KYC, GDPR, CCPA)
Experience designing systems that serve high-traffic, consumer-facing products with spiky, event-driven load
Experience with platform or shared-services work where consumers are other engineering teams
Experience working in a start-up environment
Experience in sports, commerce, media, or another consumer-scale domain

Skills

Go (Golang)
Concurrency patterns
Error handling
Testing
Profiling
Performance tuning
Backend services
APIs (REST and/or gRPC)
Distributed systems
Microservices
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Front-end framework
Data stores
Messaging
Relational databases
NoSQL databases
Caching
Event streaming (Kafka, SQS/SNS)
Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Containers
CI/CD
Infrastructure-as-code
Observability
Monitoring
Alerting
Debugging
Agile software product delivery
SCRUM methodology
Identity and access management systems
Authentication
Authorization
SSO
Account lifecycle management
OAuth 2.0
OpenID Connect
SAML
JWT
MFA
Session management
Token lifecycle management
Identity providers
CIAM platforms
Account security
Fraud prevention
PII handling
KYC
GDPR
CCPA
High-traffic systems
Consumer-facing products
Event-driven load

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$121,600—$200,000 USD

Benefits

Full-time employment
Bonus
https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

About the Company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform igniting the passions of global sports fans and maximizing presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally.
The company operates across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.
Fanatics offers products and services allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet.
The platform enables fans to buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods.
Fans can collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets.
Fanatics is building its Sportsbook and iGaming platform.
The company has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans.
Fanatics has a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners.
The company partners with 2,500 athletes and celebrities.
Fanatics has over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores.
More than 22,000 employees are committed to enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.