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, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin. Overview As a Staff Backend Engineer at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you will be the architectural owner of backend systems that safeguard our customers and ensure a trusted, compliant, and frictionless betting experience. You will design and evolve large-scale distributed systems that power fraud detection and responsible gaming capabilities focused on customer identity, account management, and financial transactions across mobile and web platforms. This role blends deep backend technical expertise with architectural leadership. You will define the long-term technical vision for fraud prevention, identity verification, and responsible gaming enforcement — ensuring our systems are secure, reliable, and adaptive to evolving threats and regulations. You’ll collaborate closely with Risk, Compliance, and Product partners to build a platform that balances safety, user trust, and operational efficiency. At FBG, we’re revolutionizing sports betting with a customer-first approach that prioritizes integrity, fairness, and innovation. As a technical leader in the CAT (Customer, Accounts & Transactions) domain, you’ll help shape the foundation of trust and safety for millions of Fanatics customers. Responsibilities - Own and evolve the backend architecture that powers fraud detection and responsible gaming features. - Design and implement distributed systems in Java and Spring Boot, building scalable services and APIs for real-time risk evaluation, transaction monitoring, and behavioral analysis. - Collaborate with Data Science, Risk, and Compliance teams to integrate fraud prevention models, transaction scoring engines, and responsible gaming rulesets into core backend flows. - Architect event-driven systems leveraging technologies like Kafka to capture and analyze transactional and behavioral signals in real time. - Lead large-scale technical initiatives, such as the modernization of fraud detection services, identity platform evolution, or real-time customer protection pipelines. - Establish backend and API best practices, emphasizing security, observability, reliability, and compliance. - Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous learning. - Partner with cross-functional teams—including frontend, mobile, product, and analytics—to ensure seamless and secure end-to-end user experiences. - Champion responsible gaming and anti-fraud principles, helping define system patterns that promote fairness and regulatory alignment. - Lead architectural reviews, incident postmortems, and design sessions, ensuring consistent improvement and knowledge sharing. - Stay ahead of emerging fraud, identity, and responsible gaming technologies, and advocate for pragmatic adoption that strengthens our platform. - Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices or industry events for planning, collaboration, and team development. Required Qualifications - 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot. - Proven ability to design and evolve secure, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems. - Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, payment systems, or fraud prevention patterns. - Experience designing APIs and backend systems that integrate with risk, compliance, or regulatory services. - Skilled at balancing performance, scalability, and compliance in high-traffic systems. - Demonstrated success driving technical alignment and architectural strategy across multiple teams. - Strong communicator who can clearly articulate complex technical solutions to engineering, product, and leadership audiences. - Passion for customer protection, data integrity, and operational excellence. - Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment with evolving priorities. Preferred Qualifications - Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch). - Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message streaming systems (Kafka), and real-time data pipelines. - Exposure to machine learning integration for fraud detection or responsible gaming scoring. - Experience building or modernizing identity, payments, or compliance platforms. - Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives focused on trust, security, or user protection. - Enthusiasm for developer experience, clean API design, and maintainable, resilient systems. Remote employee may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend. Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process. Ready to build the future of sports betting? If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply! Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. We are open to fully remote candidates based in the United Kingdom. Remote employee may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend. 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, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin. As a Backend Engineer at Fanatics, you'll design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-quality systems to deliver exceptional customer experiences. We own the Fanatics App, the brand-forward application of Fanatics that encompasses elements of all of our different brands and businesses. The Fanatics App brings together Free to Play sports games, live events, ecommerce, and new product experiences to deliver a new Sports platform. Fundamentally, we are one team in everything we do from the user experience to coding and architecture. In order to deliver on our Customer Promise, we use best in class technologies; thus allowing platforms to be as up to date as possible so that we can rapidly deliver and innovate in this exciting new market. Responsibilities - Drive the development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production - Develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry, product, architecture, and roadmap, leveraging this knowledge to shape team strategy and influence the direction of the organization - Lead the end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems, from ideation and architecture to deployment and refinement - Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices - Partner closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to make high-impact technical decisions that align with both business goals and long-term scalability - Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation, ensuring swift diagnosis and remediation of critical software issues - Demonstrate ability to lead or drive triage of difficult reliability issues and produce clear root-cause analysis. - Partner Cross functionally, and across multiple teams to bring complex features and projects from prototype to production. - Contribute to engineering excellence through documentation, tooling improvements, code reviews, and knowledge sharing. - Steer team planning and design discussions, introducing innovative approaches to solve technical challenges and optimize design patterns - Champion improvements to software quality, testability, operational metrics, and team documentation, setting a higher standard for the organization - Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth across the team - Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities Required Qualifications - 7+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant and evolvable backend distributed systems; proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java is a plus. - Demonstrated ability to drive best practices in backend development and mentor others in effective coding and architectural strategies, such as clean code, hexagonal/layered architectures, domain driven design and other design and architectural patterns - Expertise in messaging technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Flink or Amazon SQS, with a solid understanding of event-driven architectures. - Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems. - Expertise in Agile software delivery, with a track record of modeling and driving process improvements across teams, and ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments, driving alignment and shared success. - Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders. - Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better. - Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly. Preferred Qualifications - Strong Experience building segmentation services, high available - low latency applications. - Highly effective with Kotlin, Java and/or Go - Comfortable working with Cloud Native and Infrastructure as Code, like Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform - Ability to work in diverse codebases, both legacy and greenfield, in different languages and environments - Experience with CRM technologies such as SFMC, Braze, etc. If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply! Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ Ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed. In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ Salary Range $180,500—$237,500 USD

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, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin. Overview At Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), we’re building the next generation of products to relentlessly enhance the online sports betting experience. The Loyalty Engineering team is seeking a self-motivated, high-performing engineer to help accelerate our bold vision. As a Software Engineer I on the Loyalty Engineering team, you’ll work with a skilled group of backend engineers to design, build, test, and maintain modern scalable services and APIs that power in-app Loyalty experiences during the biggest moments on the global sports calendar. Success in this role starts with a collaborative and inclusive team culture, which we deeply value. This is a great opportunity for early-career engineers with 2+ years of professional industry experience who are eager to grow in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Responsibilities - Contribute to the design, development, testing, documentation, and deployment of backend services and APIs - Participate in the on-call rotation and help investigate and resolve production issues - Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver backend features and enhancements - Engage in code reviews and team discussions to promote high-quality, maintainable systems - Take part in sprint planning, architectural reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives - Develop familiarity with our systems, platform architecture, and customer use cases - Stay up to date with backend technologies, tools, and engineering best practices - Be open to occasional travel to FBG offices or industry events for collaboration and team-building Required Qualifications - 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend development - Proficiency in building backend systems using Java (Spring Framework or similar) - Strong fundamentals of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and object-oriented programming principles - Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills with a self-service mindset - Experience working in production environments and resolving real-time issues - Familiarity with relational or NoSQL databases and foundational data modeling concepts - Exposure to Agile/SCRUM methodologies and experience in software development ceremonies - Strong communication skills with a coachable mindset and a proactive approach to learning - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a desire to deepen technical expertise - Team-oriented mindset with a commitment to supporting others and continuously improving Preferred Qualifications - Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and modern DevOps practices - Interest in scaling systems, distributed architectures, and performance optimization - Desire to grow through mentorship, peer collaboration, and hands-on experience - Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth, or startup-like environments where priorities evolve rapidly and decisions are made quickly - Experience with Datadog or other observability tools - Hands-on experience in prompt engineering with AI tools including Claude Code and ChatGPT Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ Ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed. In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ Salary Range $95,000—$108,000 USD

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 At Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) we bring together Betting, Gaming, Markets, Promos and Loyalty to build seamless, fan-first wagering and rewards experiences.Our Customer Accounts & Transactions (CAT) organization owns the systems that manage every customer's journey into and through Fanatics Betting & Gaming — identity and authentication, registration and KYC, wallet and ledger, deposits and withdrawals, eligibility and geolocation, responsible gaming, and fraud and abuse detection — so customers can securely create accounts, move money, and place bets with confidence across every market we operate in. We’re hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer, CAT to drive the technical strategy, architecture and delivery of our customer accounts and transactions platform — including identity and authentication, wallet and ledger, deposits and withdrawals, and eligibility and fraud detection. You'll work with cross-functional engineering teams (FE, BE, SEMs, TPM, QE, Platform), improve operational excellence (on-call/rota, incident response and SLAs), and partner with Product, Compliance and Risk to make account and payment experiences secure, scalable and fast to market. Responsibilities - Lead the design and delivery of large-scale, mission critical systems aligned with product roadmap and long-term strategy - Drive architectural decisions and evaluate new technologies and open-source solutions. - Cultural and technical champion: Define and enforce engineering best practices across teams. - Design and build highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and financially correct systems in a regulated environment. - Continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and performance - Translate business outcomes into scalable technical solutions. - Develop a deep understanding of product, financial systems, and roadmap. - Lead cross-team initiatives and partner with PM, Design, DevOps, Security, Risk, Fraud, and external providers. - Drive resolution of complex production issues and implement long-term fixes. - Mentor and coach engineers to raise the overall technical bar. - Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities Experience and Skills - 7+ years of OO development experience building scalable, high-performance backend systems (Java preferred). - Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture. - Experience designing systems requiring high reliability and data consistency. - Experience with Spring Boot, REST APIs, and event-driven systems. - Familiarity with AWS or GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes. - Experience with Kafka or similar messaging systems. - Ability to debug complex production issues in distributed systems. - Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. - Experience leading large technical initiatives and mentoring engineers. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Preferred Qualifications - Experience thriving in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments. If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply! Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ Ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed. In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ Salary Range $152,000—$190,000 USD