Overview

As a Engineering Manager, Distributed Systems at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you'll lead the team that builds and maintains core backend shared libraries that power real-time, content-driven experiences across the product ecosystem. We embrace principles of data-driven development, operational excellence, and continuous process optimization to deliver a stable, scalable platform. Central to our strategy is Kotlin Multiplatform, which empowers us to deliver high-quality features quickly and consistently across multiple ecosystems. By focusing on object-oriented design, modern coding practices, open-source frameworks, and third-party platform integrations, we continuously innovate and deliver at speed in this exciting and fast-moving market.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and inspire teams building distributed systems that power our core platforms. You will be responsible for growing high-performing engineering teams, shaping technical direction, and ensuring delivery of resilient and scalable services built on Kotlin, Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes. In this role, You'll balance hands-on technical leadership, inner-source community stewardship, and incident escalation ownership — serving as the engineering point of contact when product teams need platform-level support.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop senior engineers responsible for supporting shared core libraries utilized by multiple engineering teams.

• Partner with product and business stakeholders to align technical investments with company strategy, balancing long-term platform evolution with near-term priorities.

• Guide teams in building distributed, event-driven, and fault-tolerant systems leveraging Kafka, Redis/Redis Pub Sub, and Postgres.

• Provide architectural oversight and ensure best practices are applied when teams build new services leveraging the core shared libraries in Kotlin/Java with Spring Boot.

• Partner with product domain engineering managers and tech leads to prioritize shared library enhancements

• Set and measure engineering goals (availability, performance, delivery cadence, quality) and hold teams accountable to outcomes.

• Champion diversity, inclusion, and growth, ensuring that engineers thrive in a supportive and challenging environment.

• Recruit, retain, and scale top engineering talent to meet the demands of growing systems and business needs.

Advocate for engineering across the organization, influencing leadership on technology strategy and distributed systems investment.

Qualifications

• 5+; years of software engineering experience, including 2+; years managing engineering teams.

• Experience owning shared libraries consumed by multiple teams

• Proven success leading teams building and operating distributed systems at scale.

• Strong track record of building engineering organizations that deliver business-critical systems with reliability and speed.

• Familiarity with modern backend stacks, particularly Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders.

• Passion for building teams and cultures that deliver impactful results.

• Experience leading multi-team programs or platform transformations.

• Background in scaling organizations through high-growth phases.

• Able to deal with ambiguity and strong self-motivation.

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

Salary Range: $180,500 - $237,500 USD per year

The base salary for this role is based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience and may vary depending on the successful candidate’s geographic location. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

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 connection 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.