Senior Software Engineer – Client Service
About the role
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
Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.
As a Senior Software Engineer at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you will play a senior technical role in building and evolving the client-facing service layers that power our Sportsbook and Casino experiences. These services sit between live sports data, internal platforms, and consumer applications, enabling fast, reliable, and personalized experiences for millions of fans.
In this role, you are a highly experienced individual contributor who leads the design and evolution of backend services and APIs from concept through production and long-term operation. You will drive architectural decisions, shape technical direction within the team, and collaborate cross-functionally with mobile engineers, product managers, and platform teams to deliver scalable backend-for-frontend (BFF) services supporting real-time user acquisition and retention experiences.
You bring deep expertise in service-oriented and distributed systems and are comfortable leading complex initiatives in ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces. You proactively identify system risks, drive performance and reliability improvements, and raise the bar for engineering quality. We value engineers who demonstrate strong technical leadership, ownership, and a commitment to operational excellence in real-time, high-traffic environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of consumer-facing backend services powering mobile Sportsbook and Casino experiences
- Architect and own backend-for-frontend (BFF) services that aggregate, transform, and optimize data for mobile clients
- Drive API design and service contracts in partnership with mobile engineers, product managers, and platform teams