Software Engineer III - React

Overview 

As a Software Engineer III, Front End at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you will be instrumental in designing, developing, implementing, testing, and maintaining the new web front end for our Sportsbook and Casino applications. This role is pivotal in delivering a user-friendly, high-quality, and low-latency experience to our customers.  Your efforts will ensure a user-friendly, high-quality, and low-latency experience for our customers. You will leverage your skills in front-end development, data-driven design, and operational excellence to create a scalable and visually appealing interface. Your responsibilities include using modern frameworks, integrating third-party platforms, and adhering to process calibration and efficiency to enhance system reliability and performance.

Your ability to develop high-performance, low-latency systems will be crucial in handling significant user loads efficiently. Working collaboratively within a team, you will embrace principles of operational excellence and process efficiency. With a passion for innovation, you will deliver cutting-edge solutions that redefine the Sportsbook and Casino experience, contributing to FBG's competitive edge in this dynamic market.

Responsibilities

• 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 resolves root causes
• Deliver solutions 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 improves 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

• 3+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant web front end applications
• Demonstrated proficiency in Javascript or Typescript
• Experience with modern front end frameworks such as React, Angular, Next
• You understand a broad range of design approaches
• You are 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
• You have an agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment
• Thrives 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 working in a start-up environment
• React experience

If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!

 

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fa