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As a Software Engineer at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you’ll be responsible for powering the rapidly growing Fanatics Sportsbook and Casino App. In your role you'll be recognized as a key member of the engineering team, combining strategic thinking with hands‑on execution.

You’ll lead ambitious projects, setting the standard for your team through innovative solutions. Your bold decisions will strike the right balance between addressing immediate business needs and ensuring long‑term technical excellence. Through your work, you’ll foster a culture of excellence and innovation, leaving a lasting impact on both your immediate team and the broader development community.

In this role you will lead the design and scaling of our distributed systems. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of hands‑on coding, architecture, and technical leadership, and who can influence engineering direction while mentoring others. This is a remote role based in England.

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.

Qualifications

We value aptitude over experience but here are some key skills that will make you successful on this team:

• 2-10 years of development experience building & deploying scalable, high‑performance applications (Java strongly preferred)
• 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.

Ready to build the future of sports betting? If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!

The expected salary range for this role is based on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award. *Actual salary will vary based on location. *Salary Range: £40,000 - £85,000 per year (actual salary will be determined in part by a successful candidate’s geographic location).

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.

• Posting Date 01/12/2026, 02:57 AM
• Locations Leeds United Superstore, Leeds, LS11 0ES, GB