About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

About the Team

Fanatics Markets is the real-money prediction and trading app where you can invest in moments you care about. Built on a secure platform, we let users predict real-world outcomes and trade on events they actually follow—from sports and entertainment to political elections and beyond. Our mission is to redefine how fans engage with the moments and markets that matter most. We're looking for the right people to help us build the future of prediction markets.

Role Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer within our Platform team, you will help define the technical direction of the platform underpinning our exchange and trading systems. You will lead the design and evolution of our infrastructure and platform standards to support a highly available, low-latency exchange, partnering closely with exchange engineers and engineering leads to enable rapid innovation without compromising stability or security.

This role requires a balance of deep hands-on software engineering, systems thinking and technical leadership. You will lead complex projects that support the exchange—from load-testing environments and mock integrations to monitoring and automated recovery. You will turn ambiguous requirements into practical designs, own delivery from ideation to production and help operate the platform as the exchange goes live. The balance of coding and infrastructure work varies by project, but you should be comfortable independently developing new software as well as improving existing systems, setting platform standards and mentoring engineers across experience levels.

On the engineering side, we are pioneering the use of AI as a code collaborator. We need engineers who have moved beyond experimentation—who actively use tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot to ship production code faster while maintaining exceptional quality.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of software tools, services and automation that solve complex infrastructure, reliability and developer experience challenges.
Define and evolve the architecture of highly available cloud-native infrastructure, balancing performance, reliability, security and cost as the platform grows.
Set technical direction for CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling, remaining hands-on in delivering improvements to the software delivery lifecycle.
Lead the development of load-testing environments and supporting software, including mock services and integrations.
Establish and evolve standards for AI-augmented development, using effective prompting and validation practices to increase velocity without sacrificing code quality.
Identify and mitigate AI-generated code pitfalls, such as security vulnerabilities or over-abstraction, and help teams evaluate the impact on quality and productivity.
Guide the design and implementation of platform security safeguards and compliance standards to protect the integrity of the firm’s systems.