Software Engineer III

Overview 

As a Senior Software Engineer (SE III) at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you will help us design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high quality, low latency systems that deliver the best experience possible to our customers.  We are one team; we employ the principles of data-driven development, operational excellence, process calibration, and efficiency to deliver a stable, extensible platform at scale.  Through fundamentals and excellence in object-oriented design, coding patterns, modern open-source frameworks, and 3rd party platform integrations, we can achieve our goals to rapidly deliver and innovate in this exciting new market.You’ll bring strong technical skills, a collaborative spirit, and a passion for solving complex problems in a fast-paced, high-growth industry.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, testing, documentation, and deployment of frontend and backend services.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and assist in investigating and resolving production issues
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver features and improvements
• Take part in code reviews and team discussions to build high-quality, maintainable systems
• Contribute in sprint planning, architectural reviews, and efforts to improve engineering processes
• Impact software quality and customer experience and maintainability of product features by helping to automate testing and manual operational excellence tasks
• Drive best practices and improve the speed of delivery
• Influence your team's adherence to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy
• Work closely with our product team and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
• Help to onboard and mentor engineers and interns
• Build familiarity with our systems, platform architecture, and customer use cases
• Stay current with latest technologies, tools, and engineering best practices
• Open to occasional travel to FBG offices or industry events for collaboration and team-building 

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on frontend and backend development
• 3+ years of experience building full-stack applications using Java (Spring Framework) and a modern framework (React preferred).
• 2+ years of experience building highly scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems
• Strong grasp of software engineering principles, architectural patterns, and system design
• Experience with databases (relational or NoSQL), and familiarity with data modeling and caching concepts
• Exposure to Agile/SCRUM methodologies and working in cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, ownership-oriented mindset
• Effective communicator, comfortable working in a collaborative team environment
• Ability to navigate shifting priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth setting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to startup or hyper-growth environments, with a pragmatic, iterative approach to building MVPs and delivering customer value.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and tools supporting deployment, monitoring, and observability (e.g., Terraform, CI/CD, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on experience or interest in React as part of a modern full-stack development workflow.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices, cloud platforms, or DevOps workflows
• Experience supporting production systems, participating in on-call rotations, and improving operational excellence.
• Familiarity with container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and/or event-driven architectures using tools like Kafka (helpful as we move in this direction).
• Interest in system design and architecture, with an eye for clean APIs, reusable services, and scalable patterns.
• Intellectually curious and interested in solving difficult problems
• Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment

Ready to build the future of sports betting? If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!