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 strives 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.
- You will partner with cross-functional peers (PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Front-end engineers, etc.)
Requirements
- 4-6 years of development experience building & deploying scalable, high-performance full stack applications using Java (Spring Framework) and React.
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team building activities
- Familiar with version control tools (e.g. Git, SVN).
- Familiar with UML, OOP, and design patterns.
- Experience with Agile/SCRUM methodologies and working in cross-functional teams
- Ability to navigate shifting priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth setting.
- Strong technical skills in a CI/CD environment, with a working knowledge of software design principles related to performance, maintainability, and scalability.
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Spring Boot Microservices framework, and JPA is strongly preferred.
- Proficiency with distributed caching and message-oriented middleware (Kafka preferred).
- Familiar with AWS services and/or GCP.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with highly available distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and complex 3rd party integrations.
Team
Structure: Fanatics Betting and 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 and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only Sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.
Additional Information
- Passion for software development and system architecture and sharing knowledge within a highly collaborative team.
