Fanatics Betting & Gaming - Staff Java Software Engineer (Remote)

• Technical Leadership & Architecture (Primary Focus) • Own the architecture for major services, integrations, and data flows within Internal Platforms, from problem definition through production operation. • Lead design for complex, often cross-functional initiatives—defining the approach, surfacing trade-offs, and driving alignment across engineering teams and stakeholders. • Break ambiguous, department-level problems into clear technical plans and workstreams that other engineers can execute against. • Evaluate and select technologies, patterns, and vendors; know when a sophisticated design approach is warranted and when the simpler answer is the right one. • Establish 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. • Identify systemic technical debt and reliability risk across the platform, build the case for addressing it, and sequence the work alongside feature delivery. • Hands-On Engineering • Design, build, and maintain Java-based backend services (Spring Boot or similar frameworks) that are scalable, resilient, and well-tested. • Take 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. • Diagnose problems at the root cause rather than the symptom, and translate what you learn into durable fixes and better instrumentation. • Set the quality bar through your own code and through high-signal code reviews that teach as well as gate. • Contribute to internal web applications and user interfaces backed by Java services where it moves the work forward. • Mentorship & Force Multiplication • Mentor and coach Senior and mid-level engineers through design review, pairing, and direct feedback; help them grow the judgment to handle complexity independently. • Create learning and growth opportunities for teammates—delegate meaningful design work, sponsor stretch assignments, and share context generously. • Onboard and ramp new engineers into the platform's systems and conventions. • Write the documentation, runbooks, and design records that let the team operate and extend the platform without you in the room. • Model an inclusive, collaborative environment where opposing views are actively invited and disagreement is resolved on the technical merits. • Cross-Functional Partnership & Delivery • Partner 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. • Work directly with Marketing, Operations, Support, Risk, Compliance, and Data teams to ensure platform capabilities meet business needs and regulatory obligations across jurisdictions. • Represent Internal Platforms in architecture and design discussions with other engineering teams, negotiating clean contracts and shared ownership boundaries. • Communicate complex technical problems, trade-offs, and decisions clearly to both engineering and non-engineering audiences, including leadership. • Drive predictable delivery for initiatives you own: scope, estimate, unblock, and own the outcome—including the parts that depend on other teams. • Engage external partners and vendors on integration design and technical escalations where needed. • Third-Party & SaaS Platform Integration • Own 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. • Define scalable, reusable integration patterns and prevent the platform sprawl that comes from point-to-point fixes. • Lead resolution of complex integration issues spanning backend services, vendor platforms, and data pipelines. • Partner with platform-specialist engineers (including our Salesforce-focused engineers) to keep integration boundaries clean and maintainable. • Operational Excellence • Own production health for the services in your remit: SLOs, alerting, on-call quality, incident response, and post-incident follow-through. • Anticipate failure modes, capacity limits, and blockers before they surface, and build the safeguards in advance. • Improve engineering practice across the team—CI/CD, test automation, release safety, and developer productivity. • Hold the line on the standards required of a regulated, highly available gaming platform.