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About the Role
Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on delivering a secure, trusted, and seamless experience for customers. This leader will own critical systems for responsible gaming, regulatory compliance, and player eligibility, guiding teams through complex problems while ensuring operational excellence and strategic impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering teams that own high-scale, high-stakes compliance systems across geolocation, state & self exclusion, responsible gaming, NJ data residency, and prohibited persons.
- Drive operational excellence by setting high standards for security, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
- Establish strong monitoring and alerting mechanisms to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraudulent activity and compliance violations.
- Partner with Risk, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure regulatory requirements, responsible gaming standards, and state-level gaming compliance obligations are met.
- Support and enhance login and registration flows for a best-in-class customer experience under high traffic loads.
- Own systems that enforce compliance gaming controls, ensuring real-time, accurate application across all regulated markets.
- Oversee geolocation and location services infrastructure that verifies customer location at the point of wagering.
- Lead the engineering strategy for user sync processes, ensuring customer account data and compliance attributes remain consistent.
- Maintain and evolve systems that enforce prohibited persons policies.
- Proactively identify and resolve technical or operational risks before they impact customers or business integrity.
- Build and maintain high-performing, mission-driven engineering teams focused on trust, safety, compliance, and performance.
- Define and execute a roadmap balancing customer experience, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and player protection.
- Empower teams to solve complex challenges in real-time eligibility enforcement, data replication, and responsible gaming tooling.
- Deliver robust, maintainable, and scalable software systems that protect customer data and ensure seamless, compliant account experiences.
- Communicate clearly and effectively with engineers, Product, Data Science, Legal, and Compliance stakeholders.
- Build deep partnerships with Fanatics Ecosystem, Fraud, Risk, Responsible Gaming, and Compliance Gaming product teams.
- Drive crisp technical and strategic discussions across teams and leadership.
- Author and present clear documentation, including engineering roadmaps, vision documents, compliance risk assessments, and incident reviews.
- Represent the CAT domain's technical perspective in broader organizational strategy and planning.
- Lead teams through highly ambiguous security, risk, compliance gaming, and geolocation challenges with structured, data-informed approaches.
- Foster a culture of accountability and innovation, balancing experimentation with rigorous controls.
- Harmonize diverse viewpoints across Risk, Legal, Product, and Engineering to make high-impact, balanced decisions.
- Provide clarity and vision amid changing regulatory and threat landscapes.
Requirements
- 2-4+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, with a track record of delivering secure, scalable systems in high-risk or regulated environments.
- Demonstrated experience building systems for fraud detection, payments, compliance, or responsible gaming is highly desirable.
- Ability to balance strategic direction with deep technical execution.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills to influence across Engineering, Product, Risk, Legal, and Compliance.
- Proven experience navigating complex, cross-functional, and regulatory challenges.
- Commitment to operational excellence and building resilient, high-trust systems.
- Passion for mentoring and developing engineers and leaders, while fostering a culture of security, empathy, and innovation.
- Experience with geolocation and location services, compliance gaming controls, user sync and data consistency pipelines, prohibited persons enforcement frameworks are preferred.
Skills
- Java
- AWS
Location
- USA Remote
Work Type
- Remote
Experience Level
- 2-4+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
Salary/Compensations
- $172,000—$215,000 USD
Benefits
- Home office setup stipend
- In-person interview or onboarding components may include onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires.
- Information about benefits available at 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 offers products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.
- Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores.
- More than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.