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We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally. \nAbout Us\nFanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally. \nOverview \nAs a Staff Engineer, Client Services at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you’ll join the Sportsbook Client team-an innovative, culturally driven group powering the rapidly growing Fanatics Sportsbook app. The team owns the core customer experience, from showcasing markets, events, and player statistics to rendering highly dynamic, real-time data. Together, we build features that elevate performance, usability, and engagement, driving customer loyalty through an exceptional user experience.\nAs a Staff Engineer at FBG, you are a seasoned contributor and technical leader, known for your ability to build scalable, high-impact solutions that drive the business forward. You combine deep hands-on expertise with a strong architectural mindset, delivering results across mobile systems. You are expected to set the technical direction, drive engineering excellence across multiple client-facing teams, and empower engineers to deliver features at the highest quality. You play a key role in shaping the future of our technology stack while mentoring others and setting a high bar for engineering excellence.\nWe embrace principles of data-driven development, operational excellence, and continuous process optimization to deliver a stable, scalable platform. Central to our strategy is Kotlin, and Kotlin Multiplatform, which empowers us to deliver high-quality features quickly and consistently across multiple ecosystems. By focusing on object-oriented design, modern coding practices, open-source frameworks, and third-party platform integrations, we continuously innovate and deliver at speed in this exciting and fast-moving market.\nResponsibilities\nLead the planning, design, and technical development of major product features, from inception through deployment, ensuring alignment with overall platform strategy.\nOwn and drive technical excellence, including defining and scaling best practices in code quality, system design, and testing across the Client Services domain and peer teams.\nConduct exceptionally thorough and constructive technical design and code reviews to maintain the highest bar for quality, reliability, and security.\nMentor and empower engineers across multiple teams, fostering a culture of technical ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.\nHelp your team define and adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy and actively drive adoption across related client teams.\nLead end-to-end delivery of multi-team projects, coordinating across engineering, product, and design. Effectively represent the team's plans, updates, and technical decisions in cross-functional planning and review forums.\nDefine and lead the testing strategy for complex client-side features and systems, promoting a culture of quality and ensuring systems are testable by design.\nGuide teams in operational best practices, actively raising the bar for observability, reliability, and system resilience. Design, stress-test, and refine systems for maintainability.\nImprove the team's processes and response rhythms for handling high-pressure situations, scope changes, or production incidents, fostering an environment of composure and continuous learning.\nDevelop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production.\nDevelop a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap.\nWork closely with our product team, design, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products.\nParticipate in an on-call rotation to address urgent issues outside business hours and contribute to app enhancements and operational efficiency (OE) by troubleshooting and resolving application-related problems.\nEscalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks.\nBe open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.\nRequired Qualifications\n7+ years of experience designing and building highly scalable backend services.\nExpertise with Kotlin as the primary development language, OR deep knowledge of Java with a strong willingness to transition to and develop primarily in Kotlin.\nProven experience with modern backend frameworks such as Spring Boot or similar.\nExperience with Coroutines and Dependency Injection.\nTeam-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better.\nAble to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders).\nFamiliar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology.\nThrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly.\nAble to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment.\nA Bachelor’s degree, or professional certification, or a combination of education and experience\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience designing and building backend services using Spring Boot or similar Java frameworks\nExperience working in large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures\nExposure to cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools\nFamiliarity with functional programming paradigms and actor-based concurrency frameworks like Apache Pekko (or Akka).\nIf you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!\nRanges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed. In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/\nSalary Range\n$1—$1 USD\nBy submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy.\nFanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. 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