Company Overview
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative 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 over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores.
As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.
Overview
At Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), a core division of Fanatics' mission to establish the ultimate end-to-end digital sports platform, we're crafting a world where every aspect of a sports fan's passion is catered to. As an Engineer II with the OddsFactory team, you'll be thrust into the innovative heart of our risk and trading domain, where the technical challenges are as diverse as they are complex. Experience great learning opportunities where you'll engage with cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to build and enhance real-time systems that not only support FBG's operations but are integral to Fanatics' broader goal of revolutionizing sports fan engagement, in an environment that fosters innovation and personal development.
In this dynamic and supportive environment, your work will directly impact the development of sophisticated systems, driving innovation in how sports fans engage with the Fanatics ecosystem and deliver FBG product. You'll tackle unique technical challenges within our real-time decision-making systems, ensuring our platform remains at the forefront of the industry. Here, your professional growth is as vital as our platform's evolution, ensuring you develop alongside our mission to revolutionize the sports experience for fans worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions within our event-driven architecture, focusing on enhancing system reliability and efficiency.
- Assist in analyzing and addressing complex problems in multifaceted systems to improve overall performance and scalability.
- Write efficient, modular, and testable code that adheres to our commitment to innovation and quality standards.
- Support the product lifecycle from concept through development and deployment, and beyond, ensuring smooth operation and reliability of our platform.
- Communicate effectively, escalating challenges as necessary and participating in code reviews to elevate code quality and foster knowledge sharing
- Collaborate seamlessly with Product, Quant and Engineering teams to ensure timely delivery of stable and reliable applications aligned with our product vision.
- Play an active role in team discussions on planning and design, gaining insights into design philosophies and contributing to our product's evolution.
- Enhance software quality through focusing on testability, operational metrics, and comprehensive documentation.
- Become a product minded engineer developing a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
- Engage in mentorship opportunities to both learn and share knowledge, promoting personal and team growth.
- Support critical operations through participation in an on-call rotation
- Be willing to travel occasionally for special events and for essential offsite meetings and team collaboration sessions.
Required Qualifications
- At least 1 year of real-world demonstrable experience building & deploying scalable, high-performance applications.
- Effective communication skills, capable of demystifying complex technical topics for diverse audiences.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly.
- Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better.
- Understanding of software design, development, and testing principles including SOLID, DRY, TDD, BDD.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure a plus), C# and SQL/NoSQL persistence solutions.
- Passion for software development and system architecture and sharing knowledge within a highly collaborative team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with sports betting or a keen interest in sports is desirable.
- Experience of building software using Domain Driven Design (DDD)
- Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Experience in partnering with cross-functional teams.
- Experience working in a start-up environment
- Passionate about working in a highly collaborative team environment
If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!
Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.
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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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