Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Java)
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Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
Job Description
Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Java), you'll join the iCasino Platform team within FBG, working on a highly scalable, fault-tolerant system that powers casino gaming experiences. Your responsibilities will include designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining software for game management, bet placement, jackpots, bonus systems, and integrations with third-party providers.
Beyond coding, you'll contribute to mentoring junior engineers, promoting engineering best practices, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure seamless interactions between our casino platform and other services within the Fanatics ecosystem.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!
In addition to the base, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, Free Shipt deliveries, and more. We'll also give you $500 to set up your home office!
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
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
Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics Holdings Inc., a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to nearly 93% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. in the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates nineteen retail locations including retail sportsbooks outside of Progressive Field and Nationwide Arena and the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Commanders Field. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver and Dublin, Ireland.
Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Java), you'll join the iCasino Platform team within FBG, working on a highly scalable, fault-tolerant system that powers casino gaming experiences. Your responsibilities will include designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining software for game management, bet placement, jackpots, bonus systems, and integrations with third-party providers.
Beyond coding, you'll contribute to mentoring junior engineers, promoting engineering best practices, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure seamless interactions between our casino platform and other services within the Fanatics ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- As a microservices developer, you are required to build software systems that have well-defined interfaces. The selected candidate will have to write modular and reusable code. The candidate will be responsible for giving quality results to big enterprise projects.
- Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production
- Build features and tools that you and your team use
- Clarify requirements and assists with coding/story estimates
- Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues
- Quickly identify when to troubleshoot or escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks
- Mitigate immediate risk, identify and resolve root causes
- Deliver solutions that are logical, testable, maintainable, and efficient
- Make technical and design approach trade-off decisions
- Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches, driving best practices and improving the speed of delivery
- Help to lead code reviews to provide constructive direction
- Impact software quality and customer experience and maintainability of product features by helping to automate testing and manual operational excellence tasks
- Drive best practices and improve the speed of delivery
- Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation
- Influence your team's adherence to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy
- Develop a solid understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
- Work closely with our product team and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
- Help to onboard and mentor engineers and interns
- Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of industry experience.
- 3+ years of experience in Java/Spring Boot
- 2+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems
- Design and develop Microservices systems with Java, Spring or Node.js
- Understand a broad range of design approaches
- Able to triage and debug system-wide production issues
- Demonstrated experience coaching other engineers
- Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders)
- Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Have an agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment
- Thrive in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly
- Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
- Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience working in a start-up environment
If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!
In addition to the base, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, Free Shipt deliveries, and more. We'll also give you $500 to set up your home office!
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
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
Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics Holdings Inc., a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to nearly 93% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. in the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates nineteen retail locations including retail sportsbooks outside of Progressive Field and Nationwide Arena and the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Commanders Field. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver and Dublin, Ireland.