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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. \nJob Summary\nFanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is building the industry's most trusted, scalable, and fan-centric sportsbook experience. Our Internal Platforms power critical systems that support customer operations, marketing, support, risk, and data-through a combination of Java backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, and integrations with the SaaS and CRM platforms our business teams run on.\nWe are seeking a Staff Java Software Engineer to set technical direction for the services and integrations that Internal Platforms runs on. This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who operates with minimal guidance, takes on our most complex and often cross-functional problems, and raises the bar for everyone around them.\nAt this level, your impact is measured beyond the code you write. You will own architecture for significant parts of the platform, drive decisions that span multiple teams and systems, mentor other engineers, and partner directly with Product, Operations, Support, Marketing, Risk, and Data leadership to shape what gets built and why. You will still be hands-on-Staff engineers at FBG write and review code every week-but you will spend meaningful time on design, technical strategy, and multiplying the output of the teams you work with.\nYou do not need to be a Salesforce specialist. Some of our systems integrate with Salesforce for CRM and workflow automation, so exposure to it is a nice to have-but we're hiring for strength in Java, distributed systems, and integration design, and we expect you to pick up the platform specifics on the job.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnical Leadership & Architecture (Primary Focus)\nOwn the architecture for major services, integrations, and data flows within Internal Platforms, from problem definition through production operation.\nLead design for complex, often cross-functional initiatives-defining the approach, surfacing trade-offs, and driving alignment across engineering teams and stakeholders.\nBreak ambiguous, department-level problems into clear technical plans and workstreams that other engineers can execute against.\nEvaluate and select technologies, patterns, and vendors; know when a sophisticated design approach is warranted and when the simpler answer is the right one.\nEstablish and evolve engineering standards for the team-API design, testing strategy, observability, deployment, and integration patterns-and get them adopted in practice, not just documented.\nIdentify systemic technical debt and reliability risk across the platform, build the case for addressing it, and sequence the work alongside feature delivery.\nHands-On Engineering\nDesign, build, and maintain Java-based backend services (Spring Boot or similar frameworks) that are scalable, resilient, and well-tested.\nTake on the hardest technical problems on the team: high-throughput event processing, complex multi-system integrations, thorny data integrity issues, and production incidents that cross service boundaries.\nDiagnose problems at the root cause rather than the symptom, and translate what you learn into durable fixes and better instrumentation.\nSet the quality bar through your own code and through high-signal code reviews that teach as well as gate.\nContribute to internal web applications and user interfaces backed by Java services where it moves the work forward.\nMentorship & Force Multiplication\nMentor and coach Senior and mid-level engineers through design review, pairing, and direct feedback; help them grow the judgment to handle complexity independently.\nCreate learning and growth opportunities for teammates-delegate meaningful design work, sponsor stretch assignments, and share context generously.\nOnboard and ramp new engineers into the platform's systems and conventions.\nWrite the documentation, runbooks, and design records that let the team operate and extend the platform without you in the room.\nModel an inclusive, collaborative environment where opposing views are actively invited and disagreement is resolved on the technical merits.\nCross-Functional Partnership & Delivery\nPartner with Product Managers, Technical Program Managers, and business stakeholders to shape roadmaps-bringing technical feasibility, sequencing, and risk into the conversation early rather than reacting to finished requirements.\nWork directly with Marketing, Operations, Support, Risk, Compliance, and Data teams to ensure platform capabilities meet business needs and regulatory obligations across jurisdictions.\nRepresent Internal Platforms in architecture and design discussions with other engineering teams, negotiating clean contracts and shared ownership boundaries.\nCommunicate complex technical problems, trade-offs, and decisions clearly to both engineering and non-engineering audiences, including leadership.\nDrive predictable delivery for initiatives you own: scope, estimate, unblock, and own the outcome-including the parts that depend on other teams.\nEngage external partners and vendors on integration design and technical escalations where needed.\nThird-Party & SaaS Platform Integration\nOwn the integration architecture between our Java services and the third-party platforms our business teams depend on-REST APIs, platform events, middleware-including data ownership, consistency, and failure handling.\nDefine scalable, reusable integration patterns and prevent the platform sprawl that comes from point-to-point fixes.\nLead resolution of complex integration issues spanning backend services, vendor platforms, and data pipelines.\nPartner with platform-specialist engineers (including our Salesforce-focused engineers) to keep integration boundaries clean and maintainable.\nOperational Excellence\nOwn production health for the services in your remit: SLOs, alerting, on-call quality, incident response, and post-incident follow-through.\nAnticipate failure modes, capacity limits, and blockers before they surface, and build the safeguards in advance.\nImprove engineering practice across the team-CI/CD, test automation, release safety, and developer productivity.\nHold the line on the standards required of a regulated, highly available gaming platform.\nQualifications\nRequired\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in Java.\nDemonstrated ownership of the architecture and delivery of complex production systems, including work that spanned multiple teams or functions.\nStrong experience designing APIs and integrating distributed systems, with sound judgment about consistency, failure handling, and service boundaries.\nTrack record of operating with minimal guidance: taking an ambiguous problem, defining the approach, and driving it to production.\nExperience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards on a team-through design review, code review, and direct coaching.\nAbility to communicate complex technical concepts and trade-offs clearly in writing and in person, to technical and non-technical audiences alike.\nExperience with Git-based workflows, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.\nExperience operating services in production, including on-call ownership and incident response.\nPreferred\nExperience with event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar) at meaningful scale.\nExperience in cloud environments (AWS preferred), including infrastructure-as-code.\nExperience with highly available or regulated systems (gaming, fintech, payments).\nExperience contributing to internal web UIs or tooling, including Java-backed web frameworks and/or modern front-end frameworks consuming Java APIs (React, Angular, etc.)\nExperience working with AI model or agent platforms, including building on or integrating agents into production workflows. Familiarity with platforms such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Copilot Studio, CrewAI, or AutoGen is a plus.\nFluency with AI-powered coding assistants to design, build, and test new functionality from the ground up-moving quickly while maintaining high code quality and test coverage-and interest in helping the broader team adopt these workflows effectively.\nNice to Have\nExposure to Salesforce as an integration target or platform-Salesforce APIs, platform events, or light development work in Apex, Lightning Web Components, or Flows. Helpful context, not a requirement.\nSalesforce certifications (Administrator, Developer).\nWhat We Value\nPassion for building high-quality internal platforms that directly impact business outcomes.\nStrong ownership mindset: you own the outcome, not just your piece of it.\nA solutions-first approach-you anticipate problems and bring options, not just escalations.\nGenuine interest in making other engineers better.\nComfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment with incomplete information.\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. 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