Software Engineer II

Location: New York, NY, United States

Department: FBG - Tech

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 Software Engineer II, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing the backend systems that power our digital sports platform. You’ll work on critical services that drive our systems—handling data, enabling seamless services, and building tooling to support real-time operations. You’ll have the opportunity to work on complex, high-scale challenges in an exciting and rapidly growing industry—all while being part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence.

Responsibilities

• You will work closely with our internal and external development teams to deliver a stable and reliable application inline with our product roadmap and schedule. 
• You will evaluate new technologies and open sources to recommend improvements for applications, services and systems.
• Cultural and technical champion: Improves and champions our best practices and strives to make Fanatics a better place to work as an engineer
• Build highly scalable and fault tolerant systems in a highly regulated production environment.
• Continuously improve our platform by embracing best practices in software engineering.
• Understand business outcomes and drive technical solutions to help achieve our goals.
• Develop a fundamental understanding of our product, feature set and roadmap, and work closely with the product to make the right technology decisions to enable the team for streamlined growth and future development. 
• Partnering with cross-functional peers (PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Front-end engineers)
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team building activities 

Experience and Skills

• 2-5 years of OO development experience (Java); building & deploying scalable, high-performance applications 
• Experience with Spring Boot Microservices framework, and JPA is strongly preferred
• Familiar with web-related technologies (e.g. HTTP, REST, TCP / IP).
• Familiar with version control tools (e.g. Git, SVN).
• Familiar with UML, OOP, and design patterns.
• Familiar with AWS services and/or GCP.
• Proficiency with distributed caching and message-oriented middleware (e.g., Kafka).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience running experiments, A/B testing and optimizing for business outcomes.
• Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, executives, non-technical functional leaders).
• Ability to triage and quickly debug system-wide and customer-impacting production issues.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with highly available distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and complex 3rd party integrations.
• Passion for software development and system architecture and sharing knowledge within a highly collaborative team.

Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.

For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/