SVP, Front-End Engineering — Ecommerce Platform

Fanatics; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 370,000 - 425,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Senior Vice President of Software Engineering to own and elevate the technology powering our ecommerce platform. Based in Redwood City, CA, you will lead a ~180-person Engineering and BI organization, shaping the front-end stack, performance, and reliability for our fan-facing experience.

You will drive AI-enabled improvements, scale agile delivery, and partner with Product, Marketing, Merchandising, and Operations to transform business objectives into engineering outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building and growing a large internal engineering org (~180+ people) through senior leaders.
• Deep technical judgment in modern front-end stacks, server/client rendering, and performance.
• Hands-on ownership of cloud production services with scalable microservices architecture.
• Experience deploying AI coding agents and assistants with measurable lead time gains.

Responsibilities

• Own hiring and succession planning for senior engineering leaders across the organization.
• Serve as executive incident commander for time-critical production issues and drive root-cause fixes.
• Drive cloud production reliability via load testing, autoscaling, and resilience practices.
• Set technical direction and quality bar for front-end stack, and align with business outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Merchandising, and Operations to translate business objectives into engineering strategy.

Skills

Executive leadership

Front-end architecture (React/Type"s"t

Incident command leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML tooling adoption

Tools

React

TypeScript

CI/CD

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Senior Vice President of Software Engineering to own and elevate the technology powering our ecommerce platform. Based in Redwood City, CA, you will lead a ~180-person Engineering and BI organization, shaping the front-end stack, performance, and reliability for our fan-facing experience.

You will drive AI-enabled improvements, scale agile delivery, and partner with Product, Marketing, Merchandising, and Operations to transform business objectives into engineering outcomes.