Staff Frontend Architect - Live Streaming & Scale

fanaticscollectibles; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Collectibles in London is recruiting a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical strategy and architecture for Fanatics Live's streaming experiences. You will own end-to-end frontend solutions using React and GraphQL, influence backend services, and set engineering standards for scale and resilience.

As a senior technical leader, you will define architectural direction, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure delivery through prototyping, code reviews and

Qualifications

• Strong end-to-end engineering knowledge with depth in frontend development.
• Experience with React and GraphQL.
• Ability to set architectural direction and standards.
• Proven track record in leading cross-team technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical strategy for Fanatics Live streaming product and supporting services.
• Define the end-to-end architecture across frontend applications, APIs, backend services and event-driven systems.
• Guide the development of scalable experiences combining live video, real-time interaction, discovery and commerce.
• Lead major technical decisions across performance, reliability, resilience and platform scalability.
• Create a clear technical roadmap that balances immediate product delivery with long-term platform health.
• Define how engineering teams design, build, review, test and operate software as the organisation scales.
• Establish reusable patterns and technical standards that improve quality and accelerate delivery across teams.
• Partner with engineering leaders, Product, Design and Data to turn ambitious product ideas into scalable solutions.
• Remain close to delivery through architecture reviews, prototyping, code reviews and targeted contributions to critical areas.

Skills

Frontend development

React

GraphQL

Architecture

Technical leadership

Code reviews

Prototyping

Job description

Fanatics Collectibles in London is recruiting a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical strategy and architecture for Fanatics Live's streaming experiences. You will own end-to-end frontend solutions using React and GraphQL, influence backend services, and set engineering standards for scale and resilience.

As a senior technical leader, you will define architectural direction, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure delivery through prototyping, code reviews and