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 <li