Software Engineer III

Overview 

As a Senior Software Engineer (SE III) at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you will help us design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high quality, low latency systems that deliver the best experience possible to our customers.  We are one team; we employ the principles of data-driven development, operational excellence, process calibration, and efficiency to deliver a stable, extensible platform at scale.  Through fundamentals and excellence in object-oriented design, coding patterns, modern open-source frameworks, and 3rd party platform integrations, we can achieve our goals to rapidly deliver and innovate in this exciting new market.You’ll bring strong technical skills, a collaborative spirit, and a passion for solving complex problems in a fast-paced, high-growth industry.

 

 

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, testing, documentation, and deployment of frontend and backend services.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and assist in investigating and resolving production issues
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver features and improvements
• Take part in code reviews and team discussions to build high-quality, maintainable systems
• Contribute in sprint planning, architectural reviews, and efforts to improve engineering processes
• 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
• Influence your team's adherence to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy
• 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
• Build familiarity with our systems, platform architecture, and customer use cases
• Stay current with latest technologies, tools, and engineering best practices
• Open to occasional travel to FBG offices or industry events for collaboration and team-building 

 

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on frontend and backend development
• 3+ years of experience building full-stack applications using Java (Spring Framework) and a modern framework (React preferred).
• 2+ years of experience building highly scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems
• Strong grasp of software engineering principles, architectural patterns, and system design
• Experience with databases (relational or NoSQL), and familiarity with data modeling and caching concepts
• Exposure to Agile/SCRUM methodologies and working in cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, ownership-oriented mindset
• Effective communicator, comfortable working in a collaborative team environment
• Ability to navigate shifting priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth setting.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to startup or hyper-growth environments, with a pragmatic, iterative approach to building MVPs and delivering customer value.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and tools supporting deployment, monitoring, and observability (e.g., Terraform, CI/CD, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on experience or interest in React as part of a modern full-stack development workflow.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices, cloud platforms, or DevOps workflows
• Experience supporting production systems, participating in on-call rotations, and improving operational excellence.
• Familiarity with container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and/or event-driven architectures using tools like Kafka (helpful as we move in this direction).
• Interest in system design and architecture, with an eye for clean APIs, reusable services, and scalable patterns.
• Intellectually curious and interested in solving difficult problems
• Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment

 

 

Ready to build the future of sports betting? If you possess some of these qualifications bu