Senior Engineering Manager - Market Maker

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, it lets users predict real-world outcomes and trade on events they actually follow - from sports and entertainment to political elections and beyond. Its 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.

We’re hiring for our Market Making team that sits outside the Fanatics Markets application’s operation, working independently with a third-party exchange and clearinghouse. The Market Maker provides liquidity across prediction markets — making every market feel deep, competitive, and tradeable — while managing its own P&L as an independent business line within the org. The Market Maker controls its data ingestion, pricing engine, order management, PnL and risk monitoring, and the internal Trading UI its traders rely on around the clock.

The market making team is small, moves fast, and deploys to production daily. We're expanding coverage across every major sport, market type, and event available to trade. World Cup 2026 is our next major milestone, and the NFL season follows close behind.

Role Overview

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to build and lead the Market Making engineering team from the ground up. This is a founding leadership role — you'll own technical direction, team culture, and delivery for systems where real money is on the line with every price we quote. You'll partner directly with our trading team, manage a P&L you can see every morning, and build the operational foundation that lets us trade at scale and with confidence.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Market Making engineering team — recruiting, developing, and retaining engineers across the full pipeline from pricing and order management to PnL infrastructure and Trading UI.
• Set technical direction for the team's distributed, event-driven systems built on Java, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, and Kubernetes — ensuring architectural decisions hold up as we expand to new sports, market types, and exchange venues.