Staff Engineer - Partner Onboarding & Integrations

Fanatics Collectibles; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Staff Engineer to own partnerships engineering, focusing on onboarding systems, APIs, and integrations that connect external partners to Fanatics ONE. You will lead architecture decisions, set engineering standards, and work with identity, loyalty, and SDK teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions.

You will collaborate with external partners, drive platform improvements, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar while ensuring customer-ready, observable systems

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a staff-level or equivalent technical leadership role.
• Deep experience designing and building integration platforms, partner APIs, or developer-facing systems.
• Proven experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and identity provider integrations.
• Track record of architecting distributed systems that operate reliably at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and delivery of partner onboarding systems, integration platforms, and APIs that connect external partners to Fanatics ONE.
• Architect and build the Account Linking Platform, enabling fans to seamlessly connect external partner accounts to their Fanatics ONE identity.
• Drive identity provider integrations, ensuring partners can connect to Fanatics Identity reliably and securely at scale.
• Build loyalty program integration systems that allow partners to participate in FanCash, Tier Point, and One Credit earning & redemption without requiring bespoke integrations for each partner.
• Own technical quality across the team, establishing patterns, reviewing code, setting standards, and ensuring systems are observable, testable, and maintainable.
• Partner with Identity, Loyalty, and SDK engineering teams within Fanatics Core to align on shared APIs, contracts and integration patterns as well as architecture and development patterns.
• Engage directly with external partners and their technical teams to understand integration requirements and translate them into scalable platform solutions.
• Identify and drive improvements to developer experience, including tooling, documentation, and self-service capabilities that reduce partner integration time.
• Mentor engineers across the team, raising the technical bar through pairing, design reviews, and engineering culture

Skills

Full stack engineering

Integration platforms

OAuth / OpenID Connect

Distributed systems

Communication

Multi-tenant environments

Go

TypeScript/React

Loyalty / payments platforms

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Staff Engineer to own partnerships engineering, focusing on onboarding systems, APIs, and integrations that connect external partners to Fanatics ONE. You will lead architecture decisions, set engineering standards, and work with identity, loyalty, and SDK teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions.

You will collaborate with external partners, drive platform improvements, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar while ensuring customer-ready, observable systems