Staff Engineer, Payments – Core

🔥 12 hours ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $190k - $237.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Fanatics

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10,000+ employees

⚽ Sports

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

💰 $700M Private Equity Round - Fanatics on 2022-12

Sports • eCommerce • Retail

Fanatics is a global sports merchandise and apparel company focused on delivering officially licensed fan products and enhancing the fan experience. The company’s public site emphasizes a broad footprint, partnerships with sports organizations, brand protection, and multiple business lines (including Fanatics ONE), along with corporate responsibility, sourcing transparency, and investor relations. Fanatics operates e-commerce and retail channels and supports both consumer-facing sales and business partnerships tied to sports licensing and merchandising.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture of the payments platform, including provider integrations, deposit and withdrawal flows, and services used by other Fanatics businesses • Design and build distributed Java and Spring Boot services processing high transaction volume with strict correctness, security, and uptime requirements • Build payment orchestration and routing across processors, acquirers, and payment methods, including failover when providers degrade • Design for third-party integration failures, including timeouts, retries, idempotency, duplicate callbacks, partial failures, and reconciliation against provider and bank settlement files • Lead onboarding of new providers and banking partners, including evaluation, integration, testing, and rollout • Implement regulatory and card scheme requirements in partnership with Legal, Compliance, and Finance • Work with Fraud and Risk on payment-path risk signals, chargebacks, and disputes • Reduce payment costs through routing, provider terms, and design choices • Set standards for security, data handling, and limiting PCI scope • Lead architectural reviews, design sessions, and incident postmortems; mentor engineers • Partner with product, frontend, and mobile teams on consistent payment experiences

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot • Experience building and operating payment systems in production, including deposit and withdrawal flows, payment gateway or processor integrations, card payments, or ACH • Strong understanding of idempotency, reconciliation, and failure handling in systems dependent on third-party providers • Experience designing secure, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems • Experience with event-driven architectures and message streaming platforms such as Kafka • Working knowledge of security and compliance requirements for handling payment data, including PCI DSS • Demonstrated success setting technical direction and driving alignment across multiple teams • Ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs clearly to engineering, product, finance, and leadership audiences • Comfort working in a fast-paced, regulated environment with changing priorities

🏖️ Benefits

• Base and bonus compensation • Benefits information available at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ • Potential in-person cultural immersion through Launching into Better: LIVE for full-time, non-seasonal hires • Occasional travel to Fanatics offices or industry events for planning, collaboration, and team development