Software Engineer III

Fanatics•New York, NY

17h

About The Position

Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is on a mission to create the best online sportsbook in the industry, and we’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer III, Back End (Payments & Wallet) to help us get there. As a Software Engineer III on our Payments & Wallet team, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing the backend systems that power the financial core of our sportsbook platform. You’ll work on critical services that enable deposits, withdrawals, wallet management, bet placement and settlement, casino transactions, and payment provider integrations—ensuring fast, reliable, and secure financial operations for our users. Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics Holdings Inc., a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to nearly 93% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. At FBG, we’re revolutionizing sports betting with cutting-edge technology, a customer-first mindset, and a world-class engineering team. You’ll have the opportunity to tackle complex, high-scale challenges in an exciting and rapidly growing industry—all while being part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence.

Requirements

2-6 years of OO development experience building & deploying scalable, high-performance applications (Java strongly preferred)
Experience with Spring Boot Microservices framework, and JPA is strongly preferred
Familiar with web-related technologies (e.g. HTTP, REST, TCP / IP).
Familiar with version control tools (e.g. Git, SVN).
Familiar with UML, OOP, and design patterns.
Familiar with AWS services and/or GCP.
Proficiency with distributed caching and message-oriented middleware (e.g., Kafka).
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
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.
Familiarity with highly available distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and complex 3rd party integrations.
Passion for software development and system architecture and sharing knowledge within a highly collaborative team.

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.
Cultural and technical champion: Improves and champions 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.
Partnering with cross-functional peers (PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Front-end engineers)
Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team building activities

Benefits

full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, Free Ship deliveries, and more.
We’ll also give you $700 to set up your home office!

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