Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Tech Lead & Architect

fanaticsfbg; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a staff-level full stack engineer to lead the design and delivery of fault-tolerant systems powering a large-scale sportsbook platform. The role combines hands-on coding with architectural influence, mentoring peers, and shaping technical direction across the organization.

You will own end-to-end execution of complex features, work with product and design, lead on-call incident response, and champion software quality and operational metrics across backend and frontend

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building scalable backend distributed systems in Java/Spring.
• Mentor peers and promote clean code and domain-driven design.
• Strong observability with logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems.
• Proven Agile delivery experience across multiple teams in a large enterprise.
• Effective communication to engineers, executives, and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, testing, and deployment of scalable production software across backend and frontend surfaces.
• Drive end-to-end technical execution from ideation to deployment and refinement.
• Align architectural decisions for long-term scalability across the department.
• Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders on high-impact technical trade-offs.
• Lead incident response in on-call rotations and diagnose critical issues quickly.
• Mentor engineers at all levels and improve code review practices and quality metrics.

Skills

Java

Spring

Observability

Agile delivery

Communication

Mentoring

Distributed systems

Team leadership

React

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

Tools

React

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a staff-level full stack engineer to lead the design and delivery of fault-tolerant systems powering a large-scale sportsbook platform. The role combines hands-on coding with architectural influence, mentoring peers, and shaping technical direction across the organization.

You will own end-to-end execution of complex features, work with product and design, lead on-call incident response, and champion software quality and operational metrics across backend and frontend