Software Engineer III

About Us

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.

About The Team

Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting & Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting & Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only Sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting & Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.

Role Overview

As a Software Engineer III at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing the systems that power our Sportsbook platform. You’ll work on critical services that drive the entire betting ecosystem—handling trading data, enabling seamless bet placement and settlement, and building internal tooling to support real‑time trading operations.

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 strive 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.

Experience And Skills

• This is a remote role based in the US.
• 2-4 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 (HTTP, REST, TCP/IP).
• Familiar with version control tools (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.

Benefits

For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

Salary Range

$95,000 - $156,000 USD