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. Join our trailblazing team at the intersection of technology and fan culture. We are a growth‑focused startup within the Fanatics ecosystem, leveraging exclusive rights to merchandise from the MLB, NFL, and NBA. Our live commerce app (Fanatics Live) and Collectibles marketplace (formerly, PWCC) is positioned to revolutionize the world of collecting.
The Role
We are building a multi‑product ecosystem – live auctions, real‑time buying, streaming, and more – and are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to support efforts in building green‑field products and setting the technical foundations for future work. The Software Engineer II position at Fanatics Live supports components or applications within systems and projects and participates in design discussions to facilitate engineering‑wide learning. This role focuses on building, writing clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices and coding standards. The position contributes to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable and robust services. Other duties may be assigned.
Key Responsibilities
- Fullstack design and development on Voggt Platform:
- Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of the platform, working on both front‑end (user interfaces) and back‑end (APIs, databases, services).
- Monitor platform metrics (issues, scaling), investigate and fix bugs or issues when they arise.
- Work with business teams to understand improvement needed to the seller and user experience and translate them into the platform.
- Document existing and new features.
- Prepare and execute Voggt migration to Collect:
- Work within an agile team to propose technical solutions, ensure code quality, and contribute to the migration to the Fanatics Collect app.
- Support Voggt user base migration to the new platform Collect.
- Work with Collect team to add any Voggt‑specific feature needed to Collect.
Global Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience in backend development.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Working knowledge of database design, modeling, and optimization (especially SQL).
- Hands‑on experience with GCP services.
- Capacity to monitor and understand issues, triage between real pain and false positives.
Required Technical Skills
- Typescript: all of our codebase uses TypeScript and everything is clearly typed.
- React.js: we have 3 applications with different library/framework, strong knowledge is expected in terms of optimization and stability.
- SQL: we use SQL a lot in our pipeline data and for many optimizations.
- GraphQL, TRPC, and REST: communication between app, server and micro‑services uses different technologies; a real understanding of the why and how it works is mandatory.
Bonus
- Docker & CI: all our stack is containerized and uses GitHub Actions as CI.
- Python: good bonus to interact with the data team and operations.
- Kubernetes and ArgoCD: the infra team uses them, knowledge is appreciated to understand how and why things happen.
- Nest.js: one of our platforms uses this framework.
- Experience with metabase, datadog.
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