Staff Engineer, Software

November 17

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Fanatics, Inc.

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Gaming • Retail • eCommerce

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform that aims to enhance the fan experience for over 100 million sports enthusiasts worldwide. The company operates across several divisions including Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming. They offer fans the opportunity to buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle products, and headwear, collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets, as well as engage in sports betting. Fanatics partners with over 900 sports properties globally, including major leagues, teams, and athletes, and operates more than 2,000 retail locations. The company is committed to corporate responsibility with a focus on philanthropy, diversity and inclusion, brand protection, and sustainability.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

🎮 Gaming

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

📋 Description

• Own and evolve the backend architecture that powers fraud detection and responsible gaming features. • Design and implement distributed systems in Java and Spring Boot, building scalable services and APIs for real-time risk evaluation, transaction monitoring, and behavioral analysis. • Collaborate with Data Science, Risk, and Compliance teams to integrate fraud prevention models, transaction scoring engines, and responsible gaming rulesets into core backend flows. • Architect event-driven systems leveraging technologies like Kafka to capture and analyze transactional and behavioral signals in real time. • Lead large-scale technical initiatives, such as the modernization of fraud detection services, identity platform evolution, or real-time customer protection pipelines. • Establish backend and API best practices, emphasizing security, observability, reliability, and compliance. • Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous learning. • Partner with cross-functional teams— including frontend, mobile, product, and analytics— to ensure seamless and secure end-to-end user experiences. • Champion responsible gaming and anti-fraud principles, helping define system patterns that promote fairness and regulatory alignment. • Lead architectural reviews, incident postmortems, and design sessions, ensuring consistent improvement and knowledge sharing. • Stay ahead of emerging fraud, identity, and responsible gaming technologies, and advocate for pragmatic adoption that strengthens our platform. • Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices or industry events for planning, collaboration, and team development.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot. • Proven ability to design and evolve secure, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems. • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, payment systems, or fraud prevention patterns. • Experience designing APIs and backend systems that integrate with risk, compliance, or regulatory services. • Skilled at balancing performance, scalability, and compliance in high-traffic systems. • Demonstrated success driving technical alignment and architectural strategy across multiple teams. • Strong communicator who can clearly articulate complex technical solutions to engineering, product, and leadership audiences. • Passion for customer protection, data integrity, and operational excellence. • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment with evolving priorities.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment with evolving priorities.