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Staff Backend Engineer

Fanatics Collectibles183 open roles

Pay
$171,760 – $215,000 a year
Where
Dallas, TX, United States; Los Angeles, CA, United States; New York, NY, United States; Seattle, WA, United States; Tigard, OR, United States; Weston, FL, United States
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Your applicationOpen nowStaff Backend EngineerFanatics Collectibles · Dallas, TX, United States; Los Angeles, CA, United States; New York, NY, United States; Seattle, WA, United States; Tigard, OR, United States; Weston, FL, United States

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12.3% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Fanatics Collectibles postings stay open a median of 18 days.

Share of postings closed within
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  4. 19.3%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 57.8%60 days
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Fanatics Collectibles median: 18 days open

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About Us

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.

About the Team

Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. Backed by world-class investors, operators, and sports & entertainment partners, we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators.

Role Summary

Fanatics Live is building the future of live commerce for sports fans and collectors, bringing together content, community, and commerce in highly interactive digital experiences.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help shape and build the web and software platforms behind Fanatics Live. You’ll tackle some of our most challenging technical problems while helping establish the architecture, engineering practices, and technical direction that enable our teams to move quickly and build reliably at scale.

This is a highly technical individual contributor role for an engineer who enjoys being hands-on while also creating leverage across teams. You’ll partner with engineers, Product, Design, Data, and other stakeholders to turn ambitious product ideas into scalable, reliable customer experiences.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, high-impact initiatives across Fanatics Live.
  • Design and evolve scalable architectures supporting live commerce, discovery, community interaction, and transactional experiences.
  • Solve complex and ambiguous engineering problems that span multiple systems, services, and teams.
  • Establish technical direction, reusable patterns, and engineering standards that enable teams to build faster and more reliably.
  • Partner with Product and Design to translate customer and business opportunities into thoughtful technical solutions.
  • Remain hands-on through architecture, prototyping, implementation, code review, debugging, and solving particularly challenging engineering problems.
  • Identify and address scalability, reliability, security, performance, and operational risks.
  • Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, customer experience, technical quality, operational complexity, and long-term platform health.
  • Improve observability, testing, deployment safety, performance, and resilience across critical Fanatics Live experiences.
  • Lead technical response to significant production issues and translate learnings into durable platform improvements.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day technical leadership.
  • Build alignment across engineering teams and communicate complex technical decisions clearly to technical and non-technical partners.

What We’re Looking For

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience building and operating production software at scale.
  • Deep expertise in modern web and software engineering, with significant experience in frontend, backend, API, distributed systems, or full-stack development.
  • Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering complex systems involving multiple services, components, or engineering teams.
  • Experience leading significant technical initiatives without relying on formal people-management authority.
  • Strong understanding of scalable web architectures, APIs, caching, asynchronous processing, cloud infrastructure, performance, and system reliability.
  • Proven ability to navigate ambiguous problems, identify the most important technical challenges, and create a clear path forward.
  • Strong architectural judgment and an ability to balance near-term delivery with long-term technical health.
  • Experience influencing engineering standards, architecture, or development practices beyond your immediate projects.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions and tradeoffs to a variety of audiences.
  • A track record of mentoring engineers and making the engineers around you more effective.

Nice to Have

  • Experience building high-scale consumer marketplaces, e-commerce, live streaming, social/community, payments, auctions, or other real-time digital products.
  • Experience building software supporting high-profile live events or rapidly changing traffic patterns.
  • Experience with real-time communication technologies and event-driven architectures.
  • Experience optimizing consumer web applications for performance, reliability, and conversion.

Fanatics Live brings together creators, fans, interactive live experiences, commerce, and community, making experience with real-time and high-scale consumer platforms particularly relevant to the role.

Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud. Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Feel free to ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of communication for interview, and ensure your communication is coming from a Fanatics email address (including @collectfanatics.com). For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.fanaticsinc.com/careers

The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

USA Remote Salary Range

$171,760—$215,000 USD

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Fanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Fanatics recruiting, please do not respond and report it here.

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