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.

Fanatics is looking for a Lead Platform or Full-stack. We are looking for a seasoned technical leader to lead and grow our Platform team at Fanatics. The platform team is responsible for building and managing common, platform components such as Observability and Application platforms etc that can be used by other teams in the company.

The ideal candidate will have a track record of building scalable and performant platforms. Engineer to develop and maintain platforms & frameworks that are highly reliable, scalable, and serve as the backbone for Fanatics.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design, develop, test, and deploy platform components
• A person who mentors other engineers in the team and around the company.
• Deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs
• Work with our infrastructure engineering team to minimize the operational overhead of production systems you deploy
• Come up with new ideas to streamline existing architecture and provide newer capabilities
• Work with partner engineering to see how new features on these big data platforms can ease their pain points and improve their productivity
• Good understanding of Java, Go, and Python
• Experience with platforms like Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Druid, ElasticSearch is a big plus
• In-depth knowledge of OOP

What You Will Do:

• Own the technical roadmap for evolving the data platform to support the future needs of the business
• Provide thought leadership and mentoring to the data engineering team on how data should be stored and processed more efficiently and quickly at scale
• Partner closely with Engineering and various business teams to deliver all required functionality and feature sets on time
• Work with data engineers to create services that can ingest and supply data to and from external sources
• Define the processes needed to achieve operational excellence and platform reliability.

What We Are Looking For:

• 9+ years of software development experience with at least 6+ years of experience leading engineering teams
• Knowledge of common design patterns

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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