Fanatics Betting & Gaming - Staff Software Engineer - FMX

• Substantial experience building and operating highly scalable production systems, with demonstrated impact at Staff level or equivalent scope, including technical leadership across teams or major platform areas • Deep expertise in either user-facing web applications built with JavaScript/TypeScript and React or backend services built with languages such as Go, Java, or Python, alongside the ability to reason across the full stack. If you're frontend-strong, you don't need to arrive fluent in Go, but you should be comfortable engaging with backend architecture and system tradeoffs • A track record of setting technical direction and delivering complex initiatives from ambiguous requirements through to measurable production outcomes • Strong architectural judgment, including the ability to assess tradeoffs, establish clear system boundaries, and evolve systems as product requirements and scale change • Experience shaping React architecture, component-driven development, and modern state management using tools such as Next.js, TanStack Query, Tailwind, or Zustand; or deep backend experience with data modeling, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture using technologies such as Postgres and Kafka/PubSub • Deep knowledge of your primary language's features, idioms, and best practices, with experience establishing standards adopted beyond your immediate team • Strong understanding of performance, reliability, and security, including responsive design and accessibility on the frontend or scalability, observability, data integrity, and failure handling on the backend • Experience defining API contracts and collaborating across product, platform, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable systems • Experience shaping CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and safe deployment practices across services or applications • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, build alignment across teams, and communicate technical decisions clearly to engineers and non-technical stakeholders • A track record of mentoring engineers, strengthening technical decision-making, and increasing the effectiveness of others • Demonstrated experience using AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Copilot to ship production code, with sound judgment about their limitations and appropriate validation • Specific examples of improving development workflows, with evidence of their impact on delivery speed, quality, or engineering productivity • A team-first approach, with the judgment to move between strategic technical work and hands-on delivery according to the needs of the product • Ability to create clarity in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve and decisions must be made quickly • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, including experience aligning teams and navigating dependencies within large enterprise environments • You don't need to tick every box — deep strength in one area, demonstrated technical leadership, and a willingness to learn go a long way. • Previous experience shaping technical foundations in early-stage or high-growth startup environments • Experience with real-money transaction systems, including financial correctness, auditability, and regulatory requirements • Experience developing technical roadmaps or leading architectural changes adopted across multiple teams • Background in building developer tools or improving engineering productivity at scale • Experience establishing AI-assisted engineering practices across teams • Contributions to open-source projects or the technical community • BSc in Computer Science or a related field • Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connections and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process. • Ready to build the future of sports trading? If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply! Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. We are open to fully remote candidates based in the United Kingdom. Remote employees may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend. • By submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy. • Fanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Fanatics recruiting, please do not respond and report it here.