Backend Engineer, Platform Data Engineering - #10849 at Fanatics | Powderkeg

Location: Remote - USA

Employment Type: Salaried

Team: Infrastructure, Cloud & Platform, IT

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.

We are looking for a mid-level engineer for our big data platform team at Fanatics. The big data platform team is responsible for building and managing common data platform components such as big data processing engines, workflow engines, data governance tools, etc. that can be used by other teams in the company. The ideal candidate will have a track record of building and leading data

What Will You Do?

  • Work on day to day DevOps, Support and Development of the Big Data Platforms components
  • Maintain the big data platform and drive toward better SLA & cost optimization for the engineering and business teams
  • Partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, and various business teams to deliver all required data assets and ensure data quality and timeliness
  • Work with data engineers to create services that can ingest and supply data to and from external sources

What Are We Looking For?

  • 3+ years of software development experience
  • Common design patterns used in Big Data processing
  • Proficiency in big data technologies: EMR, Beam, Spark, Flink, Hive, Hadoop, etc.
  • Experience working with teams in different time-zones
  • Last but not the least, a good team player

Bonus points

  • You've worked with Amazon Web Services.
  • You've worked with EMR, Airflow/Stonebranch like platforms

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

· Providing outstanding Company 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.

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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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Job Summary
  • Job Title
    Backend Engineer, Platform Data Engineering - #10849
  • Company
    Fanatics
  • Location
    Jacksonville, FL
  • Employment Type
    Full time
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