Fanatics is hiringSoftware Engineer
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
As an Engineer II at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you will be a technical team member will be part of growing engineering teams. In this role, you will work as a back-end engineer with the OddsFactory team. Here you will be responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining the ecosystem which provides Fanatics Betting and Gaming with the capabilities to offer an industry leading sports betting product. We promote a supportive, collaborative atmosphere, empowering you to make an impact. We balance ambitious standards with efficiency, champion a strong customer focus, and believe in the power of open, honest communication.
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production
- Build small features and tools that you and your team use
- Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues
- Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks
- Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge
- Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches
- Impact software quality and customer experience of product features
- Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation
- Develop a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
- Work closely with our product team and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
- Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years real-world demonstrable experience building & deploying scalable, high-performance applications.
- Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders)
- Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- You have an agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment
- 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
- Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment
- Understanding of coding practices (SRP, DRY, decoupling, TDD, BDD).
- Development background working with cloud platforms (Azure a plus), C# and SQL/NoSQL persistence solutions.
- A firm understanding of software design, development, and testing best practices.
- Passion for software development and system architecture and sharing knowledge within a highly collaborative team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to understand business outcomes and drive technical solutions to help achieve our goals.
- 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!
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Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.
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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