Senior Engineer

Location: United Kingdom; Remote

Senior Engineer - Sportsbook

Overview 

As a Senior Engineer 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.
• Develop, test, and deploy backend and frontend software features through high-quality, correct production code using Java, Spring Boot, React.
• 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
• Participate in sprint planning, architectural reviews, and efforts to improve engineering processes
• Improve and champion engineering best practices related to quality, maintainability, and system performance.
• Partner with Product, Design, DevOps, and Security to build and deliver features in a highly regulated production environment.
• Participate in on-call rotations, assisting with incident response and ongoing support of production systems.
• Operate according to Agile methodologies, sharing progress and blockers in daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Stay curious and open to exploring opportunities across the stack, including frontend tools like React.
• 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

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on frontend as well as backend development
• 3+ years of experience building full-stack applications using Java (Spring Framework) and React.
• Expertise in software engineering principles, architectural patterns, and system design
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM methodologies and working in cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, ownership-oriented mindset
• Clear communicator, capable of explaining technical concepts to peers and non-engineers
• Ability to navigate shifting priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth setting.
• Solid understanding of RESTful service design, distributed systems, data modeling, caching concepts, and database technologies (SQL and/or NoSQL).
• Strong technical skills in a CI/CD environment, with a working knowledge of software design principles related to performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Security, DevOps) and external partners to deliver high-quality features.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and tools supporting deployment, monitoring, and observability (e.g., Terraform, CI/CD, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Exposure to startup or hyper-growth environments, with a pragmatic, iterative approach to building MVPs and delivering customer value.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices, cloud platforms, or DevOps workflows
• 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! Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. You need to be living in the UK to be considered.