Staff Software Engineer — Streaming & Live Commerce

Fanatics; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Live & Collect is building the future of live commerce for sports fans and collectors, bringing together content, community, and commerce in highly interactive digital experiences. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical strategy and architecture behind Fanatics Live’s streaming experiences.

You’ll define how we build high-performance customer experiences using React and GraphQL while influencing backend services, APIs and event-driven systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack engineering knowledge with frontend focus.
• Deep experience with GraphQL, APIs, and backend services.
• Experience setting technical direction for streaming products.
• Ability to lead cross-team initiatives and establish engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for consumer streaming products.
• Define end-to-end architecture across frontend and backend.
• Guide development of high-scale, real-time experiences.
• Lead major technical decisions on performance and reliability.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar.

Skills

Staff level leadership

Full-stack engineering

GraphQL expertise

Streaming products

Distributed systems

Job description

Fanatics Live & Collect is building the future of live commerce for sports fans and collectors, bringing together content, community, and commerce in highly interactive digital experiences. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical strategy and architecture behind Fanatics Live’s streaming experiences.

You’ll define how we build high-performance customer experiences using React and GraphQL while influencing backend services, APIs and event-driven systems.