As a Software Engineer II, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing the backend systems that power our digital sports platform. You’ll work on critical services that drive our systems—handling data, enabling seamless services, and building tooling to support real-time operations. Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics Holdings Inc., a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to nearly 93% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S.

At FBG, we’re revolutionizing sports betting with cutting-edge technology, a customer-first mindset, and a world-class engineering team. You’ll have the opportunity to work on complex, high-scale challenges in an exciting and rapidly growing industry—all while being part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence.

Responsibilities

• You will work closely with our internal and external development teams to deliver a stable and reliable application inline with our product roadmap and schedule.

• You will evaluate new technologies and open sources to recommend improvements for applications, services and systems.

• Cultural and technical champion: Improves and champions our best practices and strives to make Fanatics a better place to work as an engineer

• Build highly scalable and fault tolerant systems in a highly regulated production environment.

• Continuously improve our platform by embracing best practices in software engineering.

• Understand business outcomes and drive technical solutions to help achieve our goals.

• Develop a fundamental understanding of our product, feature set and roadmap, and work closely with the product to make the right technology decisions to enable the team for streamlined growth and future development.

• Partnering with cross-functional peers (PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Front-end engineers)

• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team building activities

Qualifications

We value aptitude over experience but here are some key skills that will make you successful on this team:

• 2-5 years of OO development experience (Java); building & deploying scalable, high-performance applications

• Experience with Spring Boot Microservices framework, and JPA is strongly preferred

• Familiar with web-related technologies (e.g. HTTP, REST, TCP / IP).

• Familiar with version control tools (e.g. Git, SVN).

• Familiar with UML, OOP, and design patterns.

• Familiar with AWS services and/or GCP.

• Proficiency with distributed caching and message-oriented middleware (e.g., Kafka).

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience running experiments, A/B testing and optimizing for business outcomes.

• Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, executives, non-technical functional leaders).

• Ability to triage and quickly debug system-wide and customer-impacting production issues.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Familiarity with highly available distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and complex 3rd party integrations.

• Passion for software development and system architecture and sharing knowledge within a highly collaborative team.

Ready to build the future of sports betting? If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!

The expected salary range for this role is based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award. Salary range is listed in USD: $108,000 - $156,250 per year (actual salary will be determined in part by a successful candidate’s geographic location). In addition to base salary, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like Gym Pass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, and more. We’ll also give you $700 to set up your home office!