Staff Engineer, Payments – Core

🕒 October 20

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $190k - $237.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Fanatics, Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

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.

📋 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

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