Job Description

Company Overview

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports ecosystem.

The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today's 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, a transformative company that is building a new model for the hobby and giving collectors an end-to-end collectibles experience; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Additional ventures that will build out Fanatics' footprint across the broader digital sports landscape will be rolled out soon. Fanatics' partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.

As a market leader with more than 8,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

At Fanatics, we're a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support. We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.

About the Role

As a Sr Mgr of Engineering at Fanatics, you will work on projects that impact the highest priorities of our technology roadmap and the business, all while collaborating cross-functionally with multiple teams. Engineering Managers influence teams outside of their own organization and deliver results that move the needle at the organizational level and impact company-wide goals.

You want to create a diverse team and maintain a positive culture that is focused on technical excellence, blending a variety of backgrounds and approaches, and meeting critical large scale project leadership across multiple teams. We have many talented and passionate engineers that are looking for a leader that enables them to do their best work and that will help grow them into the next set of senior engineers and leadership for our company. There will also be a great deal of cross functional partnership and leadership in helping our company deliver large, strategic initiatives that are key to our fan experience and growth.

What will you be doing?

• Be a subject matter expert in relevant technology and product domains

• Lead and mentor engineers and tech leads

• Lead the effort in developing and launching new products, as well as maintaining and improving existing products

• Contribute technically to projects

• Contribute to creating an excellent work environment and engineering culture

• Contribute to building top quality engineering teams and technology practices

• Drive requirements, design, build, test, deploy, support for software applications

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Product Management and Business Stakeholders to implement technology solutions

• Implement/Refine the processes needed to achieve and sustain operational excellence, including project delivery and systems reliability

• You will be expected to work directly with PMs and designers to forge scalable solutions

• You will independently find opportunities to build tooling to improve the lives of our engineers as well as users

• Contribute to department OKRs and Engineering KPIs

• Advocating for Continuous Integration & Delivery

We are looking for someone who has/is?

• Reliable, analytical, and organized communicator with strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills

• Flexible, reliable, outgoing and a positive work attitude to work with globally dispersed teams

• Good change management and leadership skills

• A strong business acumen and ability to maintain budgetary control.

• Technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills with a high degree of professionalism in working collaboratively at all levels inside/outside the organization

• High curiosity - proactively seeking to learn more and 'connect the dots' for better solutions. Affinity toward technology as a customer experience enabler.

• Bachelor's degree and/or applicable experience in the information technology field

• 10+ Years of experience in technology

• 5+ Years of hands-on experience in programming languages and frameworks like Java, Kotlin, Go, Python.

• 5+ years of experience working with SQL/NoSQL database management systems

• 5+ years of experience implementing large-scale, high availability systems

• 5+ years people-management experience preferably in distributed setting

• Experience with Agile/Kanban methodology

Bonus Points!

• Experience working with AWS

• Experience working with DevOps / Infrastructure tooling such as Terraform

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Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics' fair labor practices.

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