Principal Engineer

Fanatics Commerce is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, operating a vertically integrated platform that designs, manufactures, and delivers officially licensed apparel, jerseys, headwear, and collectibles for major leagues, teams, and events worldwide. With more than 900 e-commerce sites and a global omnichannel presence across digital, in-venue, and retail, Fanatics Commerce reaches fans in over 180 countries and powers official fan experiences for many of the world's most iconic sports properties.

At Fanatics, we bring our BOLD Leadership Principles to life every day - building championship teams, obsessing over fans, acting with entrepreneurial speed, and delivering with a determined and relentless mindset.

The Principal Engineer, Software - Finance & Supply Chain Platform is responsible for architecting resilient, distributed transaction flows across microservices, cloud ERPs (Oracle Fusion, NetSuite, D365), OMS, WMS, financial systems, and data platforms that underpin Fanatics Commerce's global operations. This role sets engineering standards for event contracts, data consistency, reconciliation frameworks, and financial ledger integrity while leading modernization initiatives including monolith decomposition, async processing, and domain-driven design. The Principal Engineer, Software - Finance & Supply Chain Platform delivers business and fan impact through BOLD leadership and execution excellence, leveraging data, automation, and AI-enabled insights.

HOW WILL YOU DRIVE IMPACT

Success is measured by the ability to deliver results through BOLD capabilities and measurable outcomes.

Team & Leadership Impact (Build Championship Teams)

Cross-Functional Leadership:

• Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, Data, and Security leadership to translate regulatory and operational requirements into actionable architecture decisions and platform roadmaps.
• Influence cloud infrastructure strategy and drive platform alignment across engineering domains, ensuring cohesive standards for event contracts, API design, and data consistency.
• Engage executive and cross-functional stakeholders to shape long-term platform strategy and build organizational confidence in distributed system design choices.

People Leadership:

• Mentor senior engineers across domains, elevating technical craft and establishing engineering standards that scale with the organization.
• Champion a culture of observability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement - coaching teams on SRE principles, SLOs, and self-service resilience patterns.

Fan & Customer Impact (Obsessed with Fans)

• Architect systems designed for high availability and horizontal scalability, ensuring seamless fan and commerce experiences during peak traffic events such as seasonal spikes and product launches.
• Design and enforce disaster recovery, fault tolerance, and latency standards that protect the integrity of financial and order management systems fans depend on.
• Enable accurate, real-time inventory and order data flows across OMS and WMS, ensuring fans receive reliable fulfillment experiences at every touchpoint.
• Drive the adoption of Agentic AI to reimagine finance workflows - including invoice processing, reconciliation, and supplier communication - freeing teams to focus on higher-value fan and business outcomes.

Innovation & Problem Solving (Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit)

• Lead modernization initiatives including monolith decomposition, asynchronous processing, event streaming, and domain-driven design across Finance and SCM platforms.
• Define and evolve cloud-native architecture using API-first and event-driven patterns, establishing the technical foundation for a scalable, future-ready platform.
• Establish a robust error framework with self-service retry mechanisms, reducing manual intervention and improving system resilience across distributed transaction flows.
• Influence the adoption of streaming platforms (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Event Hubs) and async messaging patterns to unlock real-time processing capabilities across financial and inventory domains.

Ownership & Execution (Determined & Relentless Mindset)

• Own system-level non-functional requirements - latency, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and security - holding the bar on platform reliability for critical financial and supply chain systems.
• Drive observability strategy across logging, tracing, metrics, and SLOs for financial and inventory systems, ensuring engineering teams can detect, diagnose, and resolve issues with speed and confidence.
• Establish standards for financial ledger integrity, revenue recognition, and reconciliation frameworks within distributed, eventually consistent system architectures.
• Design for peak readiness - including month-end close cycles and high-transaction retail events - ensuring platform stability and performance under the most demanding operational conditions.

AI & DIGITAL CAPABILITY

We are building a future-ready organization. This role is expected to:

• Apply AI and technology to improve efficiency, quality, and outcomes
• Use data and digital tools to inform decisions and enhance performance
• Demonstrate curiosity and adaptability in adopting new technologies and ways of working
• Contribute to a culture of innovation and continuous improvement

CAPABILITIES & EXPERIENCE YOU BRING

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of engineering experience building distributed, cloud-native systems, with demonstrable expertise in microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and API design.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes), including serverless and managed service patterns.
• Experience with streaming platforms (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Event Hubs) and asynchronous messaging patterns in high-transaction retail or eCommerce environments.
• Strong understanding of financial domain concepts - ledgering, revenue recognition, inventory costing, and reconciliation - and direct experience with cloud ERPs such as Oracle Fusion, NetSuite, or D365.
• Deep knowledge of data architecture, eventual consistency, and idempotent processing, paired with strong SQL and data modeling skills and proficiency in modern backend stacks (Java, .NET, Go, or similar).
• Experience implementing observability and SRE principles using tools such as OpenTelemetry, with demonstrated ability to define and enforce SLOs for mission-critical systems.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional and executive stakeholders on platform strategy, with a track record of mentoring senior engineers and elevating engineering standards at scale.

WORK LOCATION

Hybrid: The primary place of performance of this role is the Company's office located in Hyderabad,Telangana, subject to the Company's current hybrid work policy. This role currently requires in-office presence 3 days a week i.e, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

At Fanatics, we operate with a BOLD mindset - We Build Championship Teams, we’re Obsessed with Fans, we embrace a Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit, and we approach every challenge with a Determined and Relentless Mindset. If you’re ready to contribute to a dynamic, fast-paced environment that thrives on collaboration and growth, we want you to be part of our team.

ABOUT US

Fanatics is a leading global sports platform redefining how fans connect with the teams, players and moments they love. Our businesses - Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, Fanatics Betting & Gaming, Fanatics Events, Fanatics Advertising, Fanatics Markets and Fanatics Studios - maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally and create a one-stop experience that allows fans to buy, bet, collect, and earn, while engaging with sports in deeper, more immersive ways. This includes licensed fan gear and lifestyle products, sportsbook and iGaming, physical and digital trading cards, live events, premium sports entertainment content, credit card offerings and more. Together, they form a powerful, integrated ecosystem - connected by the Fanatics ONE loyalty program and FanCash, the currency of sport - delivering personalized experiences to over 100 million fans worldwide. Fanatics holds partnerships with over 900 sports properties, from professional leagues and players’ associations to teams, colleges and retail partners; over 7,000 athletes and celebrities; and over 2,000 retail locations, including all Lids stores. Backed by a team of more than 22,000 employees, Fanatics is committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Fanatics Commerce is a leading designer, manufacturer, and seller of licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods. It operates a vertically-integrated platform of digital and physical capabilities for leading sports leagues, teams, colleges, and associations globally - as well as its flagship site, www.fanatics.com.

Fanatics Commerce has a broad range of online, sports venue, and vertical apparel partnerships worldwide, including comprehensive partnerships with leading leagues, teams, colleges, and sports organizations across the world-including the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Formula 1, and Australian Football League (AFL); the Dallas Cowboys, Golden State Warriors, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea FC, and Tokyo Giants; the University of Notre Dame, University of Alabama, and University of Texas; the International Olympic Committee (IOC), England Rugby, and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).

At Fanatics Commerce, we infuse our BOLD Leadership Principles in everything we do:

· Build Championship Teams

· Obsessed with Fans

· Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit

· Determined and Relentless Mindset

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