Engineering Manager - FBG

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 worldwide by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming. Through our platform, fans can buy licensed apparel, collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets, or place bets as we build our Sports book and iGaming platform.

Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) was launched in 2021 and is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics. Our Sports book serves 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. and our Casino is available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. FBG operates 22 retail sports betting locations, including a sports book inside the Northwest Stadium NFL venue, and is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds, and Dublin.

This position is 100% remote.

As an Engineering Manager – Distributed Systems at FBG, you will lead the team that builds and maintains core backend shared libraries powering real‑time, content‑driven experiences across our product ecosystem. You will guide high‑performing engineering teams, shape technical direction, and ensure delivery of resilient and scalable services built on Kotlin, Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes. Your role balances hands‑on technical leadership, inner‑source community stewardship, and incident ownership.

• Lead, coach, and develop senior engineers responsible for shared core libraries used by multiple engineering teams.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to align technical investments with company strategy, balancing long‑term platform evolution with near‑term priorities.
• Guide teams in building distributed, event‑driven, and fault‑tolerant systems leveraging Kafka, Redis/Redis Pub Sub, and Postgres.
• Provide architectural oversight and ensure best practices are applied when teams build new services using the core shared libraries in Kotlin/Java with Spring Boot.
• Partner with product domain engineering managers and tech leads to prioritize shared library enhancements.
• Set and measure engineering goals (availability, performance, delivery cadence, quality) and hold teams accountable to outcomes.
• Champion diversity, inclusion, and growth, ensuring that engineers thrive in a supportive and challenging environment.
• Recruit, retain, and scale top engineering talent to meet the demands of growing systems and business needs.
• Advocate for engineering across the organization, influencing leadership on technology strategy and distributed systems investment.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of engineering team management.
• Experience owning shared libraries consumed by multiple teams.
• Proven success leading teams building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Strong track record of building engineering organizations that deliver business‑critical systems with reliability and speed.
• Familiarity with modern backend stacks, particularly Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders.
• Passion for building teams and cultures that deliver impactful results.
• Experience leading multi‑team programs or platform transformations.
• Background in scaling organizations through high‑growth phases.
• Able to deal with ambiguity and self‑motivate.

Salary Range: $180,500 – $237,500 USD per year. Base salary is based on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience and may vary depending on geographic location. For information about benefits, visit

As set forth in Fanatics Betting & Gaming’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.