Principal Engineer, Fanatics
$200-240k
Sports merchandise retailer
Job no longer available
Sports merchandise retailer
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-240k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Fanatics' mission is to ignite and amplify the passion of global fans across their digital sports journey, and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience in designing high throughput, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
- Strong experience in designing and developing microservices
- Experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with Golang, Temporal, or AWS
- E-commerce, logistics, or payments experience is a plus
- API Design
- Microservices
- Experience scaling within a cloud environment
- Demonstrated ownership of operational stability and a strong bias for action
- Independent problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work with a wide variety of teams and stakeholders
- Ability to dive deep into complex systems
What the job involves
- Work with a team of 6 engineers on a high-impact, greenfield project called Fan Connect, which allows our 3rd party partners to integrate deeply into the Fanatics software ecosystem
- Help scale the Fan Connect platform from handling millions of dollars in order flow to hundreds of millions of dollars
- Design and architect solutions for complex order flows that will enable our 3rd party partners' deep integration into the Fanatics software ecosystem
- Drive our usage of Temporal to build robust workflows for our business processes. Champion best-in-class observability for our platform
- Foster a culture of operational excellence and accountability by establishing clear SLAs and SLOs
- Mentor and coach engineers on the team to help them grow their technical skills and career
- Lead complex technical projects with many internal and external stakeholders and drive them to completion
Our take
Fanatics is a sports-based eCommerce company that offers teams and leagues a convenient online platform through which to sell licensed apparel and merchandise. As well as the Fanatics online store, it runs the online stores of dozens of teams and leagues including the MLB, NHL, NBA, and NASCAR. They've also signed a number of exclusive deals to become the sole vendors of officially licensed merch for top athletes across multiple leagues.
It operates using a Cloud Commerce sales system which tracks clicks and purchases on the site as well as sports and player news and updates to inform retail and marketing decisions in real time. The company was first established as Football Fanatics, a chain of bricks-and-mortar stores in malls across Florida. Since then, it has been bought out by GSI Commerce and expanded.
Looking ahead, while its commerce business remains its biggest source of revenue for now, Fanatics has expanded into livestreamed shopping around collectibles and trading cards, acquiring Tops and hiring Snap and Alphabet executive to launch this new business. It also has an NFT arm in Candy Digital, of which it’s the majority owner, as well as a fledgling betting and gaming division.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Dec 2022
$700m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2022
$1.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $4.8bn
Company benefits
- At Fanatics we place our focus on results and empowerment and encourage you to enjoy your time on and OFF the field with our competitive time off policies
- Fanatics values our internal fans too! Our programs are designed to thank and reward Fanatics athletes for their hard work and commitment to winning as a team
- From breakfast to happy hour and every hour in between – Fanatics employees can enjoy time together at one of our many company events.
- As an employee you will receive a special discount on all of your favorite sports merchandise and memorabilia
- Fanatics cares about the fans around us. We encourage you to partner up with your teammates in giving back and serving the communities where we work and play
- You never know who will show up to the office. You might just meet one of your all-time favorite athletes
- Here at Fanatics we want you to accomplish your goals. We offer tuition reimbursement
- Fanatics cares about helping and supporting our teams in their busy lifestyles. Through wellness relationships with fitness and weight management partners we are here to support you in whatever your lifestyle goals
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Rubin
(CEO)Michael founded GSI Commerce in 1998, before co-owning New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia 76ers since 2011. They also founded Fanatics in 2011 alongside roles at ShopRunner, Rue La La, Reform Alliance and Kynetic.
Doug Mack
(Vice Chairman and Board Director, not founder)Previously served as CEO for One Kings Lane. Co-founded and acted as CEO and Director of Scene7.
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