Staff Engineer, Fanatics

Salary not provided
SQL
C#
.NET
Azure
Senior level
Remote in Ireland
Fanatics

Sports merchandise retailer

Job no longer available

Fanatics

Sports merchandise retailer

1001+ employees

B2CRetailSportseCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
SQL
C#
.NET
Azure
Senior level
Remote in Ireland

1001+ employees

B2CRetailSportseCommerce

Company mission

Fanatics' mission is to ignite and amplify the passion of global fans across their digital sports journey, and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners worldwide.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years real-world demonstrable experience building & deploying scalable, high-performance applications
  • Deep 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

Desirable

  • Ability to understand business outcomes and drive technical solutions to help achieve our goals
  • Experience in partnering with cross-functional teams (PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Front-end engineers)
  • Passionate about working in a highly collaborative team environment

What the job involves

  • As a Staff Engineer at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you will be a technical leader who can grow and scale 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
  • Lead a team or teams that develops, tests, documents, and deploys high quality software into production, leading the delivery of solutions that are extensible and scalable
  • Clarify requirements and assists with coding/story estimates
  • Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues
  • Quickly identify when to troubleshoot or escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks, find a path forward in difficult situations
  • Mitigate immediate risk, identify and resolve root causes
  • Remove bottlenecks and makes technical and design approach trade-off decisions short term vs long-term
  • Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches, driving best practices and improving the speed of delivery
  • Lead code reviews to provide constructive direction
  • Proactively simplifies code and resolves team architecture deficiencies
  • Impact software architecture, dependencies, performance, and business value
  • Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation
  • Advise technology leaders, our product team, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
  • Mentor and coach other engineers and actively work to reduce onboarding burden of future team members
  • Influence your team's adherence to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy
  • Develop a solid understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
  • 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
  • Engage with customers, stakeholders, and team members to develop projects and features that meet both customer needs and team goals effectively
  • Demonstrate mastery in .NET technologies, adhering to and advocating for industry-leading practices, patterns, and standards
  • Share your knowledge and expertise acting as a mentor to other developers, fostering an environment of growth and continuous improvement
  • Be willing to travel occasionally for special events and to Bet Fanatics offices for essential offsite meetings and team collaboration sessions

Otta's take

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Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Fanatics is a sports-based eCommerce company that offers teams and leagues a convenient online platform through which to sell licensed apparel and merchandise. As well as the Fanatics online store, it runs the online stores of dozens of teams and leagues including the MLB, NHL, NBA, and NASCAR. They've also signed a number of exclusive deals to become the sole vendors of officially licensed merch for top athletes across multiple leagues.

It operates using a Cloud Commerce sales system which tracks clicks and purchases on the site as well as sports and player news and updates to inform retail and marketing decisions in real time. The company was first established as Football Fanatics, a chain of bricks-and-mortar stores in malls across Florida. Since then, it has been bought out by GSI Commerce and expanded.

Looking ahead, while its commerce business remains its biggest source of revenue for now, Fanatics has expanded into livestreamed shopping around collectibles and trading cards, acquiring Tops and hiring Snap and Alphabet executive to launch this new business. It also has an NFT arm in Candy Digital, of which it’s the majority owner, as well as a fledgling betting and gaming division.

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

20% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Dec 2022

$700m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Mar 2022

$1.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $4.8bn

Company benefits

  • At Fanatics we place our focus on results and empowerment and encourage you to enjoy your time on and OFF the field with our competitive time off policies
  • Fanatics values our internal fans too! Our programs are designed to thank and reward Fanatics athletes for their hard work and commitment to winning as a team
  • From breakfast to happy hour and every hour in between – Fanatics employees can enjoy time together at one of our many company events.
  • As an employee you will receive a special discount on all of your favorite sports merchandise and memorabilia
  • Fanatics cares about the fans around us. We encourage you to partner up with your teammates in giving back and serving the communities where we work and play
  • You never know who will show up to the office. You might just meet one of your all-time favorite athletes
  • Here at Fanatics we want you to accomplish your goals. We offer tuition reimbursement
  • Fanatics cares about helping and supporting our teams in their busy lifestyles. Through wellness relationships with fitness and weight management partners we are here to support you in whatever your lifestyle goals

Company values

  • By fans, for fans - By Fans = Bringing passion and pride to the work we do; For Fans = Exceeding fan expectations
  • One fanatics... Win as a team - Our combined efforts; growing and succeeding together; WE before ME
  • Missionary, not mercenary - At Fanatics, working here is more than a paycheck, it’s doing what you love everyday
  • Innovative products and fan experiences - Offering fans unique products and ultimate experiences – there is no one else doing what we do, better than we do it
  • Execution and agility... Over talk - Quickly adapting and delivering our best in a fast-paced, high growth environment while maintaining humility

Company HQ

West Village, New York, NY

Founders

Michael Rubin

(CEO)

Michael founded GSI Commerce in 1998, before co-owning New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia 76ers since 2011. They also founded Fanatics in 2011 alongside roles at ShopRunner, Rue La La, Reform Alliance and Kynetic.

Doug Mack

(Vice Chairman and Board Director, not founder)

Previously served as CEO for One Kings Lane. Co-founded and acted as CEO and Director of Scene7.

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