<p>Location: Colorado - Boulder</p><br/><p>Employment Type: Salaried</p><br/><p>Team: Commerce Backend & Data Science</p><br/><div>Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform, complete with offerings that excite fans and maximize the reach and presence for partners across the entire sports ecosystem. Come help us build a company the world has never seen before!&nbsp;We are first and foremost a technology company.&nbsp;We build innovative fan experiences through highly analytical, forward thinking, and open-minded collaboration. We are passionate about evaluating and finding the right tech for the jobs at hand, and we get excited about building solutions for modern challenges. </div><div><br></div><div>This Senior staff Engineer will lead the architectural and creative aspects of delivering UI/UX and API's for a wealth of Fanatics’ internal services and applications, this role will provide technical guidance to large teams across the Fanatics organization, solve hard coding problems, unblock engineering teams by proposing simple, scalable solutions and in some cases solving the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Our team is passionate and talented, and we never have to worry about cross-browser compatibility. You’ll be called upon to use your expertise to help craft compelling experiences for business users on top of extremely rich and interconnected datasets.</div><div><br></div><div>As a Senior staff engineer, you'll have the creative freedom to determine how best to implement features, you will collaborate with architects and peers across various domains to socialize your ideas and learn from your peers.&nbsp; This is a very visible role where you will be called upon to present your ideas and designs in front of large audiences and be responsible for the overall success of the initiative.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>You will own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to improve productivity. You will coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals.&nbsp;</div><h3>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:</h3><br/><ul><li>8-10 years of experience as an engineer, lead</li><li>Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript</li><li>Experience working with React, GraphQL, <a href="http://Node.js" class="postings-link">Node.js</a>, TypeScript</li><li>Experience with building high performance and high throughput API's using Golang, Java, Scala</li><li>Experience with Load and Performance testing, profiling applications and API's&nbsp;</li><li>Experience Architecting and Designing Full-stack distributed systems</li><li>Experience working in a cloud environment&nbsp;</li><li>Experience in Infrastructure (as code - Terraform)</li><li>Experience in Databases/data modeling</li><li>Experience leading a team of 20+ engineers</li><li>Experience in partnering with product, design and other development teams</li><li>Experience with Agile (SCRUM)</li><li>Strong verbal and written communication skills</li></ul><br/><h3>PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:</h3><br/><ul><li>Experience building PLM applications in the Retail domain</li><li>Experience with Merchandizing applications and domain</li></ul><br/><h3>WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR FROM YOU:</h3><br/><ul><li>Pragmatism — you’re biased for action, delivering small pieces that grow over time</li><li>Creativity in problem-solving &amp; autonomy</li><li>You'll be expected to work directly with PMs and designers to forge scalable solutions</li><li>You will independently find opportunities to build tooling to improve the lives of our engineers as well as users</li><li>You have comfort with multiple languages (our primary languages are Golang and JavaScript/TypeScript), and can dive into other codebases to unblock yourself</li><li>You are Mentor to your team and to the larger fanatics organization</li></ul><br/><h3>You are familiar with or prepared to learn about:</h3><br/><ul><li>Continuous Integration &amp; Delivery</li><li>You are capable of learning new topics when unfamiliar</li><li>You have a desire to learn and grow, push yourself and your team, and share lessons with others</li><li>Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the product</li><li>Conduct technical interviews for candidates</li><li>Generate and implement process improvements, especially cross-team processes</li><li>Enable quad planning team collaboration within product groups</li><li>Enable Product, Quality, and UX performance via solid stable-counterpart partnership</li><li>Contribute to department OKRs and Engineering KPIs</li><li>Improve product quality, security, and performance</li></ul><br/><div><i>Salary Range for Staff levels: $189,000 - $215,000</i></div><div><i>Depending on Education/Training and Experience</i></div><div><br></div><div><b>Things We Care About</b></div><div><br></div><div>·<span style="font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Your career growth, your ideas, your work-life balance, and your well-being.</div><div>·<span style="font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Diversity and Inclusion</div><div>·<span style="font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Our Company <a href="https://www.fanaticsinc.com/culture" class="postings-link">Culture and Values</a></div><div>·<span style="font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Providing outstanding <a href="https://www.fanaticsinc.com/perks-and-benefits" class="postings-link">Company Perks and Benefits</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Company Overview</b></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports ecosystem.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, through Topps as a cornerstone of the business, building a new model for the collectibles and trading cards hobby with top leagues and players association partners; and Fanatics Betting &amp; Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>As a market leader with more than 9,000 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.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support.&nbsp; We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fanaticsinc.com/" style="font-size: 12pt" class="postings-link">www.fanaticsinc.com</a></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><u>Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud.&nbsp; Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants.&nbsp; Fanatics recruiters will only reach out to applicants from an @fanatics.com or @fanatics.co.uk email address.&nbsp; For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at <a href="http://www.fanaticsinc.com/careers" class="postings-link">www.fanaticsinc.com/careers</a></u></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><b>NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS/APPLICANTS</b>: In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you (“Personal Information”). The categories of Personal Information that we collect include your name, government issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information.<i>&nbsp;</i>&nbsp;We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future contract positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies.</div>

Location: Colorado - Boulder

  

Employment Type: Salaried

  

Team: Commerce Backend & Data Science

  

Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform, complete with offerings
that excite fans and maximize the reach and presence for partners across the
entire sports ecosystem. Come help us build a company the world has never seen
before! We are first and foremost a technology company. We build innovative
fan experiences through highly analytical, forward thinking, and open-minded
collaboration. We are passionate about evaluating and finding the right tech
for the jobs at hand, and we get excited about building solutions for modern
challenges.

  

This Senior staff Engineer will lead the architectural and creative aspects of
delivering UI/UX and API's for a wealth of Fanatics’ internal services and
applications, this role will provide technical guidance to large teams across
the Fanatics organization, solve hard coding problems, unblock engineering
teams by proposing simple, scalable solutions and in some cases solving the
problem.

  

Our team is passionate and talented, and we never have to worry about cross-
browser compatibility. You’ll be called upon to use your expertise to help
craft compelling experiences for business users on top of extremely rich and
interconnected datasets.

  

As a Senior staff engineer, you'll have the creative freedom to determine how
best to implement features, you will collaborate with architects and peers
across various domains to socialize your ideas and learn from your peers.
This is a very visible role where you will be called upon to present your
ideas and designs in front of large audiences and be responsible for the
overall success of the initiative.

  

  

You will own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to
improve productivity. You will coordinate across departments to accomplish
collaborative goals.

### REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  

  * 8-10 years of experience as an engineer, lead
  * Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  * Experience working with React, GraphQL, [Node.js](http://Node.js), TypeScript
  * Experience with building high performance and high throughput API's using Golang, Java, Scala
  * Experience with Load and Performance testing, profiling applications and API's 
  * Experience Architecting and Designing Full-stack distributed systems
  * Experience working in a cloud environment 
  * Experience in Infrastructure (as code - Terraform)
  * Experience in Databases/data modeling
  * Experience leading a team of 20+ engineers
  * Experience in partnering with product, design and other development teams
  * Experience with Agile (SCRUM)
  * Strong verbal and written communication skills

  

### PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  

  * Experience building PLM applications in the Retail domain
  * Experience with Merchandizing applications and domain

  

### WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR FROM YOU:

  

  * Pragmatism — you’re biased for action, delivering small pieces that grow over time
  * Creativity in problem-solving & autonomy
  * You'll be expected to work directly with PMs and designers to forge scalable solutions
  * You will independently find opportunities to build tooling to improve the lives of our engineers as well as users
  * You have comfort with multiple languages (our primary languages are Golang and JavaScript/TypeScript), and can dive into other codebases to unblock yourself
  * You are Mentor to your team and to the larger fanatics organization

  

### You are familiar with or prepared to learn about:

  

  * Continuous Integration & Delivery
  * You are capable of learning new topics when unfamiliar
  * You have a desire to learn and grow, push yourself and your team, and share lessons with others
  * Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the product
  * Conduct technical interviews for candidates
  * Generate and implement process improvements, especially cross-team processes
  * Enable quad planning team collaboration within product groups
  * Enable Product, Quality, and UX performance via solid stable-counterpart partnership
  * Contribute to department OKRs and Engineering KPIs
  * Improve product quality, security, and performance

  

 _Salary Range for Staff levels: $189,000 - $215,000_

 _Depending on Education/Training and Experience_

  

 **Things We Care About**

  

·         Your career growth, your ideas, your work-life balance, and your
well-being.

·         Diversity and Inclusion

·         Our Company [Culture and
Values](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/culture)

·         Providing outstanding [Company Perks and
Benefits](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/perks-and-benefits)

  

 **Company Overview**



Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and
harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds
of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database
of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand
name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for
licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports
platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports
ecosystem.



The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a
vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way
fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods
through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in
today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles
company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and
MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, through
Topps as a cornerstone of the business, building a new model for the
collectibles and trading cards hobby with top leagues and players association
partners; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail
sportsbook platform. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports
leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and
professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.



As a market leader with more than 9,000 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.



At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite
pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support.  We recognize
that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program
(inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees
with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and
what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.

  

[www.fanaticsinc.com](http://www.fanaticsinc.com/)



 _Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud.
Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants.  Fanatics recruiters will
only reach out to applicants from an @fanatics.com or @fanatics.co.uk email
address.  For added security, where possible, apply through our company
website at [www.fanaticsinc.com/careers](http://www.fanaticsinc.com/careers)_

  

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.

  

 **NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS/APPLICANTS** : In connection with your
application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or
describes you (“Personal Information”). The categories of Personal Information
that we collect include your name, government issued identification number(s),
email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact
information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and
demographic information. _ _  We collect and use those categories of Personal
Information about you for human resources and other business management
purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for
potential or future employment or future contract positions, recordkeeping in
relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as
permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with
applicable legal requirements and Company policies.

