Staff Engineer, Real-Time Trading Systems

Fanatics Betting & Gaming; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Trading Engineering team. You will lead the design and delivery of complex, real-time systems, mentoring engineers and guiding technical direction across multiple teams.

The role focuses on scalable event-driven architectures, performance, and reliability, with opportunities to work across product and analytics teams. We welcome fully remote candidates based in Ireland or the UK, but encourage on-site collaboration two days per

Qualifications

• 8+ years of real-world experience building and deploying scalable, high-performance applications.
• Proven technical leadership at staff level, delivering complex systems and mentoring engineers.
• 8+ years of experience with C# and cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Effective communication skills for diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Thrives in entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environments with evolving priorities.
• Team-first mindset and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done.
• Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD).
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, high-performance solutions in an event-driven architecture.
• Analyze and address complex problems to improve performance and scalability.
• Write clean, modular, testable code adhering to quality standards.
• Support product lifecycle from concept through deployment and beyond.
• Participate in code reviews to improve quality and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with Product, Quant and Engineering teams to deliver stable applications.
• Contribute to planning and design discussions to evolve product features.
• Focus on testability, operational metrics, and thorough documentation.
• Develop a product-minded engineering approach with domain knowledge and roadmap awareness.
• Mentor others and engage in knowledge sharing.
• Participate in on-call rotations and occasional travel for events.

Skills

8+ years experience

Staff level leadership

C# and Azure

Communication

Analytical thinking

Startup / hyper-growth

Team collaboration

DDD familiarity

Cross-functional work

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Trading Engineering team. You will lead the design and delivery of complex, real-time systems, mentoring engineers and guiding technical direction across multiple teams.

The role focuses on scalable event-driven architectures, performance, and reliability, with opportunities to work across product and analytics teams. We welcome fully remote candidates based in Ireland or the UK, but encourage on-site collaboration two days per