Senior Software Engineer - Live & Collect

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 the high-growth technology start-up arm of Fanatics. We work across live streaming, real-time commerce and community, creating experiences for collectors that connect millions of sports fans around the world.

Our portfolio includes Topps, Fanatics Collect and Fanatics Live, alongside partnerships with NFL, MLB, UEFA, Formula 1, Disney, Marvel, and sporting icons including Tom Brady, Jude Bellingham, Harry Kane and David Beckham.

As we continue to scale globally, we're building the resilient, distributed systems behind those experiences—supporting millions of users, powering real-time interactions, enabling global payments and solving complex engineering challenges around scalability, reliability and low-latency performance.

Role Summary

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help evolve the backend platform powering Fanatics Collect and Fanatics Live.

You'll design and build distributed systems that enable real-time commerce, live shopping experiences and global transactions for our collectors.

Working at the heart of our Engineering organisation, you'll own business-critical backend services that support expansion, acquisition integration and the shared transaction infrastructure used across Fanatics Collectibles products.

This is a highly technical role where you'll solve complex distributed systems challenges, building resilient, event-driven services that deliver high throughput, low latency and exceptional reliability at global scale.

What You'll Actually Work On

Designing and scaling highly available distributed systems serving millions of users

Building resilient, event-driven backend services powering real-time commerce and live experiences

Designing and evolving our shared transaction, payments and ledger platform across multiple products

Scaling multi-currency, cross-border payment and settlement systems

Building high-performance APIs powering web, mobile and creator experiences

Integrating newly acquired platforms into the wider Fanatics ecosystem

Solving complex challenges around reconciliation, fraud prevention, refunds, payment orchestration and financial accuracy

Improving platform observability, reliability, resilience and fault tolerance

Supporting international expansion through region-specific compliance, taxation and localisation requirements

Optimising backend services for high throughput, low latency and horizontal scalability

Key Responsibilities

Own critical backend services within a high-scale, distributed platform

Design resilient microservices and event-driven architectures

Drive architectural decisions across platform and transaction systems

Build systems that prioritise reliability, scalability and operational excellence

Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across the team

Partner closely with Product, Frontend, Mobile and Platform Engineering teams

Collaborate across Fanatics Collect and Fanatics Live to deliver seamless collector experiences

Remain highly hands-on, designing and implementing business-critical backend systems

What We're Looking For

6+ years of backend software engineering experience

Strong experience building distributed systems at scale

Experience designing resilient APIs and microservice architectures

Deep understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing and event-driven systems

Experience building high-throughput, low-latency backend services

Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern backend infrastructure

Experience designing observable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems

Comfortable making architectural decisions in fast-moving environments

We build much of our platform in Elixir, taking advantage of its strengths for highly concurrent, distributed systems. Experience with Elixir is a bonus—not a requirement. If you've built scalable backend systems in Java, Kotlin, Go, Node.js or Python and enjoy learning new technologies, we'd love to hear from you.

You'll thrive if you enjoy solving difficult distributed systems problems, taking ownership of platform architecture and building technology that operates at truly global scale.

The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

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