Senior Principal Software Engineer

About Fanatics Momentum Fanatics Momentum is building the UAE's leading regulated commercial gaming operator. Licensed by the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA), we operate across lottery, iGaming, sports book, and digital content, combining Momentum's regional foundation with Fanatics' global product, technology, and scale. The business is ambitious, well-resourced, and moving fast. If you want to help build a category-defining operator in one of the world's most exciting regulated gaming markets, this is the right time to join.

About Fanatics Momentum Fanatics Momentum is building the UAE's leading regulated commercial gaming operator. Licensed by the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA), we operate across lottery, iGaming, sports book, and digital content, combining Momentum's regional foundation with Fanatics' global product, technology, and scale. The business is ambitious, well-resourced, and moving fast. If you want to help build a category-defining operator in one of the world's most exciting regulated gaming markets, this is the right time to join.

We're looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer to serve as the technical and architectural lead for our platforms. This is the person who sets the engineering standard, makes the hardest technical calls, and shapes our technology ecosystem for years to come along with helping us venture into new regions and take on our highest profile technical challenges and products.

This is not a heads-down IC role. It's a seat at the table and an opportunity to help define the technical strategy as we build a new engineering organization and scale our platform in the region and internationally. You will help to influence major architectural and technology decisions, establish engineering standards and processes, and serve as a trusted technical advisor and partner to the CTO.

You'll operate across the organization, connecting architecture, engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and operations to ensure we're building a platform that is scalable, resilient, and designed for long-term growth. You'll help establish the technical vision, develop the engineering principles and practices that guide the organization, and raise the technical bar across the entire team.

The ideal candidate is someone who can leverage AI and agentic coding methodology. Move seamlessly between deep technical architecture and executive-level strategy. Someone who is comfortable making difficult tradeoffs, challenging conventional thinking, and providing clarity when the path forward isn't obvious.

• Influence extends to all verticals within the domain and collaborates across verticals to drive key technology decisions and a cohesive strategy
• Be a technology leader within your domain and mentor leadership within each vertical
• Remove bottlenecks and make technical and design approach trade-off decisions: opportunity vs. cost
• Have a strong understanding of modern AI/ML architectures, LLMs, AI agents, embeddings, vector search, RAG, and model integration patterns, with the ability to translate these technologies into production-grade systems
• Have experience identifying opportunities to leverage AI to improve products, engineering productivity, automation, decision-making, and operational efficiency
• Lead design decisions around systems architecture and/or product solutions, driving best practices and improving the speed of delivery
• Proactively audit and simplify the codebase, resolving architectural deficiencies and technical debt before they compound into systemic risk
• Define and implement best practices in operational excellence and mitigation strategies organizationally
• Advise technology leaders, our Product team, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
• Engage external commercial partners to build key relationships and identify opportunities
• Develop an expert-level understanding of our industry, product, feature set, and roadmap
• Set the long-term architecture strategy for our event-driven platform, getting ahead of complexity rather than reacting to it, and eliminating risks before they become production problems
• Drive strategically critical initiatives across multiple teams, establishing the patterns and trade-off frameworks that become the gold standard across the engineering organization
• Mentor and elevate senior engineers, removing bottlenecks and…