Senior Staff Engineer

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At Fanatics Betting & Gaming we are accelerating Fanatics’ mission to create the ultimate digital sports platform and relentlessly enhance the fan experience. The Senior Staff Engineer role in the Trading Engineering team marries deep technical expertise with forward-looking strategy to guide the technology in our Risk and Trading domain through unprecedented complexity. Your sphere of influence reaches beyond a single sport or product line, steering multiple teams and shaping interconnected systems that drive FBG’s Sports book offering.

Balancing high-level technical strategy with hands-on execution, you will embolden teams to challenge the status quo in the sports betting industry and deliver groundbreaking capabilities through our Odds Factory platform. In cultivating a culture of perpetual learning, you will steer teams through the ambiguities of modern software development, ensuring a shared environment of trust, experimentation, and continuous improvement. Your mentorship will nurture future engineering leaders, enhancing FBG’s technical practices to stay on the cutting edge of this industry.

Seize the opportunity to shape the future of sports entertainment as a Senior Staff Engineer ough your vision and leadership, you will fuel our ongoing mission to redefine sports fan engagement.

• Advise and empower engineering teams as they develop, test, document, and deploy high-quality software into production environments.
• Lead high-impact projects spanning multiple teams, ensuring robust, stable, scalable, and cost-effective solutions aligned with strategic objectives.
• Align and streamline designs across your department, promoting clarity and simplicity in technical direction while upholding organizational goals.
• Engage in incident response when necessary, diagnosing and resolving software production issues in real time.
• Unblock teams by swiftly determining whether to escalate or deep-dive, charting a path forward in complex or ambiguous situations.
• Mitigate immediate risks while systematically identifying and addressing root causes for long-term resilience.
• Make strategic trade-offs between architectural considerations and business opportunities, removing bottlenecks to accelerate delivery.
• Drive architectural decisions for vertical systems and/or product solutions, championing best practices that enhance delivery speed and consistency.
• Oversee or lead code reviews, offering actionable, constructive feedback to elevate code quality and engineer growth.
• Continuously simplify existing codebases and address architectural deficiencies, ensuring ongoing adaptability and maintainability.
• Influence systemic impact, shaping software architecture, dependencies, performance metrics, and overall business value.
• Elevate testability and operational excellence, refining team documentation and processes to foster greater transparency and reliability.
• Advise technology and product leaders on high-level technical decisions, fueling product enhancements and strategic growth.
• Mentor and set an example for other engineers, guiding professional development and cultivating a culture of excellence.
• Represent the organization externally through tech talks, white papers, or community initiatives, enhancing our industry presence.
• Set the engineering standard across the department, ensuring your team adheres to core principles, guidelines, and best practices that align with our strategic vision.
• Develop comprehensive domain expertise, understanding industry trends, our product features, and the broader roadmap to inform decision-making.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, integrating relevant innovations into day-to-day engineering practices.
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

• 8+ years of experience architecting and deploying highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Broad design mastery, capable of dissecting complex architectures and distributing them effectively among multiple teams.
• Expert troubleshooting…