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About the Role

As a Staff Engineer, Client Services at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you’ll join the Sportsbook Client team powering the rapidly growing Fanatics Sportsbook app. The team owns the core customer experience, from showcasing markets, events, and player statistics to rendering highly dynamic, real-time data. You will set the technical direction, drive engineering excellence across multiple client-facing teams, and empower engineers to deliver features at the highest quality. You play a key role in shaping the future of our technology stack while mentoring others and setting a high bar for engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

Lead the planning, design, and technical development of major product features, from inception through deployment, ensuring alignment with overall platform strategy.
Own and drive technical excellence, including defining and scaling best practices in code quality, system design, and testing across the Client Services domain and peer teams.
Conduct exceptionally thorough and constructive technical design and code reviews to maintain the highest bar for quality, reliability, and security.
Mentor and empower engineers across multiple teams, fostering a culture of technical ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Help your team define and adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy and actively drive adoption across related client teams.
Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-team projects, coordinating across engineering, product, and design.
Effectively represent the team's plans, updates, and technical decisions in cross-functional planning and review forums.
Define and lead the testing strategy for complex client-side features and systems, promoting a culture of quality and ensuring systems are testable by design.
Guide teams in operational best practices, actively raising the bar for observability, reliability, and system resilience.
Design, stress-test, and refine systems for maintainability.
Improve the team's processes and response rhythms for handling high-pressure situations, scope changes, or production incidents, fostering an environment of composure and continuous learning.
Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production.
Develop a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap.
Work closely with our product team, design, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products.
Participate in an on-call rotation to address urgent issues outside business hours and contribute to app enhancements and operational efficiency (OE) by troubleshooting and resolving application-related problems.
Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks.
Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

Requirements

7+ years of experience designing and building highly scalable backend services.
Expertise with Kotlin as the primary development language, OR deep knowledge of Java with a strong willingness to transition to and develop primarily in Kotlin.
Proven experience with modern backend frameworks such as Spring Boot or similar.
Experience with Coroutines and Dependency Injection.
Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better.
Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders).
Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology.
Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly.
Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment.
A Bachelor’s degree, or professional certification, or a combination of education and experience.

Skills

Kotlin
Kotlin Multiplatform
Object-oriented design
Modern coding practices
Open-source frameworks
Third-party platform integrations
Spring Boot
Coroutines
Dependency Injection
Agile
SCRUM
Java
Spring Boot
Large-scale distributed systems
Event-driven architectures
Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP)
CI/CD pipelines
Observability tools
Functional programming paradigms
Actor-based concurrency frameworks like Apache Pekko (or Akka)

Experience Level

Staff Engineer
7+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree, or professional certification, or a combination of education and experience

Salary/Compensations

$1—$1 USD

Benefits

Full-time employment

About the Company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet.
Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform.
Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; 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, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores.
Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

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