Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.
We’re hiring a Senior Principal Software Engineer to own the technical strategy and architecture for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming engineering team, driving the design and development of a highly scalable, fault-tolerant online platform. You'll work on critical areas such as Betting and Gaming market integration, risk management, tooling and other mobile/backed systems that deliver seamless customer experiences.. This leader will drive complex cross-team initiatives, establish scalable technical patterns, improve reliability and operational excellence, and partner across Engineering, Product, and Security to ensure our most critical services are reusable, compliant, high-performing, and built to support rapid innovation.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for driving the design and development of a highly scalable, fault-tolerant online Betting and Gaming platform. You'll work on critical areas such as sportsbook market integration, risk management, tooling and other backed systems that deliver seamless customer experiences..
- Lead architecture for critical, cross-cutting systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and built for long-term reuse.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Platform leaders to shape priorities, sequencing, and technical trade-offs across multiple teams and domains.
- Drive the design and execution of the organization’s most complex technical initiatives, especially those spanning teams, systems, and regulatory constraints.
- Establish and elevate engineering standards, design principles, and review practices that improve quality, maintainability, and operational readiness.
- Identify and resolve systemic technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and architectural contention, guiding teams toward pragmatic, durable solutions.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical decision-making across the organization, serving as a trusted technical leader to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems.
- Proven ability to set technical direction and influence architecture across multiple teams or domains.
- Outstanding system design and architectural judgment, especially in complex, high-scale environments.
- Deep experience building secure, reliable, and performant production systems.
- Track record of leading large, cross-cutting technical initiatives from design through adoption.
- Strong engineering judgment across scalability, operability, maintainability, and technical trade-offs.
- Experience building platforms, services, or frameworks that create leverage across an engineering organization.
- Excellent communicator with the ability to influence at both the technical and executive level
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in one or more core platform domains such as identity and account systems, payments and transactions, loyalty and promotions, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
- Experience with mobile cross-platform technologies eg Kotlin Multiplatform
- Experience thriving in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments.
If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!
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.
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
Ranges 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/
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Skills Required
- 15+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems
- Ability to set technical direction and influence architecture across multiple teams or domains
- Outstanding system design and architectural judgment in complex, high-scale environments
- Experience building secure, reliable, and performant production systems
- Track record leading large, cross-cutting technical initiatives from design through adoption
- Strong engineering judgment across scalability, operability, maintainability, and technical trade-offs
- Experience building platforms, services, or frameworks that create leverage across an engineering organization
- Excellent communication and ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders
- Willingness to travel occasionally to Fanatics offices and other locations
- Experience in core platform domains such as identity and account systems, payments and transactions, loyalty and promotions, platform engineering, or developer productivity
- Experience with mobile cross-platform technologies such as Kotlin Multiplatform
- Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments
Fanatics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fanatics and has not been reviewed or approved by Fanatics.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentives like annual bonuses and overtime opportunities are common, supporting higher total compensation especially in corporate roles. Seasonal premiums and performance bonuses are also cited across roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options, mental-health services, and wellness programs are highlighted as core offerings. Additional supports like HSAs/FSAs and condition management further strengthen the health package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave, fertility benefits, adoption assistance, and gender-affirmation coverage are explicitly included. Childcare support and backup care resources are also referenced.
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What We Do
Transforming the licensed sports industry through an innovative vertical e-commerce model that allows Fanatics to quickly design, manufacture and distribute high-quality fan gear across retail channels, better serving the real-time expectations of leagues, teams, fans and retailers in today’s mobile-first, on-demand culture.
Why Work With Us
You don't have to love sports to work here (though we love sports fanatics as well!). Fanatics is an industry leading, multi-billion dollar, international, privately held company with a casual, lofty space in the heart of Downtown Boulder. We have the advantages of a startup, without the pitfalls.
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