Staff Engineer

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
229K-249K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce • Retail • Software • Sports
Tech-First Sports Licensed E-Commerce Cutting-Edge Company
The Role
Designs and builds personalized customer-facing experiences, optimizes mobile and backend performance, and develops scalable systems. Creates dashboards and visualizations for monitoring and insights, collaborates with product, architecture, infrastructure, and engineering teams, and contributes to roadmap planning. Provides mentorship, leads code reviews, establishes engineering standards, evaluates mobile applications and competitors, and prototypes emerging technologies.
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About Us
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. 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. 

Design and build customer-facing user experiences that aggregate data from multiple sources and deliver personalized, fast, and responsive interactions for users; Optimize mobile application performance by identifying and debugging application-level bottlenecks, improving mobile responsiveness, and enhancing backend services that support the mobile experience; Collaborate with system architects and infrastructure teams to design scalable solutions capable of supporting increasing data volumes, user interactions, and system load; Develop dashboards, data visualizations, and reporting tools used by internal customers and engineering teams to monitor application systems, analyze performance, and surface data-driven insights; Contribute to mobile application development by reviewing and analyzing codebases, participating in code walkthroughs, and evaluating competitor applications to identify enhancements and industry best practices; Partner closely with product management to support roadmap planning, assess technical feasibility for new features, and ensure engineering decisions align with product, business, and user needs; Facilitate cross-functional collaboration through consistent communication with engineering leadership and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment on feature development, progress, and delivery expectations; Provide technical mentorship to junior developers, lead code reviews, and help define and enforce engineering standards, principles, and best practices across the team; Research, evaluate, and prototype emerging technologies, sharing findings with the team and applying insights to improve future product development and inform technical decision-making. Partial telecommuting permitted; on-site at 61 9th Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10011 when not telecommuting. Salary: $228,900 - $248,900 per year.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s Degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or any occupation, job title, or position conducting code walkthroughs, reviews and collaborating with cross domain stakeholders.

In lieu of a Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of experience, the employer will accept a Master’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 3 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or any occupation, job title, or position conducting code walkthroughs, reviews and collaborating with cross domain stakeholders.

Must also have experience in the following: 3 years of professional experience developing and optimizing systems and user experiences, including resolving performance bottlenecks and implementing strategies to deliver fast and responsive customer-facing interactions; 3 years of professional experience collaborating with product managers, architects, and infrastructure teams to ensure technology decisions align with user needs, scalability objectives, and product requirements; 3 years of professional experience executing personalized customer experiences using data aggregation, third-party integrations, and insight-driven features; 3 years of professional experience creating dashboards and reporting tools and collaborating with data analysts to design data visualizations and reporting mechanisms for internal and engineering use; 3 years of professional experience contributing to mobile application development, including reviewing mobile codebases, participating in walkthroughs, and evaluating competitive mobile applications; 3 years of professional experience providing guidance on engineering principles, best practices, and leading code reviews with a focus on quality and education; 3 years of professional experience working with internal stakeholders to communicate progress, address technical challenges, and provide technical recommendations that support feature delivery; 3 years of professional experience researching and experimenting with emerging technologies, including prototyping and sharing findings through internal documentation or knowledge-sharing sessions.

CONTACT: Apply online at fanaticsinc.com/careers or email resume to: [email protected]. Must specify Ad Code AGKM in subject line. #LI-DNI #LI-DNP


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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
  • Five years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or in a role involving code walkthroughs, reviews, and collaboration with cross-domain stakeholders
  • Alternatively, a Master's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
  • Alternatively, three years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or in a role involving code walkthroughs, reviews, and collaboration with cross-domain stakeholders
  • Three years of experience developing and optimizing systems and user experiences, resolving performance bottlenecks, and delivering fast, responsive customer-facing interactions
  • Three years of experience collaborating with product managers, architects, and infrastructure teams on user needs, scalability, and product requirements
  • Three years of experience delivering personalized customer experiences using data aggregation, third-party integrations, and insight-driven features
  • Three years of experience creating dashboards and reporting tools and collaborating with data analysts on data visualizations
  • Three years of experience contributing to mobile application development, reviewing mobile codebases, participating in walkthroughs, and evaluating competing applications
  • Three years of experience providing engineering guidance, leading code reviews, and promoting best practices
  • Three years of experience communicating with internal stakeholders, addressing technical challenges, and providing technical recommendations
  • Three years of experience researching, experimenting with, and prototyping emerging technologies and sharing findings

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
7,500 Employees
Year Founded: 1995

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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