Staff Engineer, Payments – Core

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $190k - $237.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Sky Betting & Gaming

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1001 - 5000 employees

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gambling • Gaming • B2C

Sky Betting & Gaming is a UK-based consumer-facing betting and online gaming operator. Now part of Flutter UK & Ireland and the wider Flutter Entertainment group, the brand is presented alongside Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars and tombola as a market-leading provider of trusted entertainment to millions of customers. The company emphasizes responsible play, customer experience and uses digital platforms (web and apps) to deliver betting and gaming services, with operational presence in Leeds and registration under Flutter Entertainment plc.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture of the payments platform, including provider integrations, deposit and withdrawal flows, and payment services used by other Fanatics businesses • Design and build distributed Java and Spring Boot services processing high transaction volumes with strict correctness, security, and uptime requirements • Build payment orchestration and routing across processors, acquirers, and payment methods using approval rate, cost, and provider health, with failover for degraded providers • Design for third-party integration failures, including timeouts, retries, idempotency, duplicate callbacks, partial failures, and reconciliation with 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 with Legal, Compliance, and Finance • Partner with Fraud and Risk on payment-path risk signals, chargebacks, and disputes • Reduce payment costs through routing, provider terms, and reduced unnecessary movement of money • Set standards for security, data handling, and limiting PCI scope • Lead architectural reviews, design sessions, incident postmortems, and mentor engineers • Partner with product, frontend, and mobile teams on consistent customer payment experiences • Set technical direction for payments across multiple teams

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience • Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot • Experience building and operating production payment systems, including deposit and withdrawal flows, payment gateway or processor integrations, card payments, or ACH • Strong understanding of idempotency, reconciliation, and failure handling with 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 payment-data security and compliance requirements, 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 • Preferred: experience in online gaming, sports betting, fintech, or banking • Preferred: knowledge of card networks, acquirers, issuers, interchange, transaction classification, and chargeback processes • Preferred: experience with payment orchestration, smart routing, or multi-business-unit payments platforms • Preferred: experience integrating banking partners or building account funding and money movement products • Preferred: experience with financial reconciliation and settlement reporting • Preferred: experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and observability tooling such as Datadog, Grafana, or CloudWatch • Preferred: interest in developer experience, clean API design, and maintainable systems

🏖️ Benefits

• Base and bonus compensation • Full-time employment • Potential in-person onboarding components, including Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City • Benefits information provided at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ • Occasional travel to Fanatics offices or industry events for planning, collaboration, and team development