Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Job summary

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 Fan***, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet.

Qualifications

• Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.
• 4+ years of experience building highly scalable, high-performance backend applications or distributed systems.
• Background in regulated exchange or financial infrastructure strongly preferred – brokerage, futures/derivatives exchanges (CBOE, CME, ICE), or similar CFTC/SEC-regulated environments.
• Production experience with Java; Go experience or a strong demonstrated desire to work in Go.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, PubSub, or similar) in a financial or high-throughput context.
• Strong understanding of data integrity and transaction management in PostgreSQL or equivalent RDBMS, including financial-grade data modelling.
• Solid grasp of software design principles (SOLID, DRY) and testing methodologies (unit, integration, end-to-end).
• Familiarity with CFTC compliance
• MNPI handling, and audit trail obligations in a regulated trading environment.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and safe deployment practices for backend services.
• Production reliability experience: monitoring, logging, alerting, on-call, and SLO
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Responsibilities

• You will join a greenfield team building new services in Go, working alongside engineers with deep backgrounds in regulated financial infrastructure.
• You will lead by example, establishing best practices for AI-assisted development while building systems that must meet the reliability, latency, and auditability standards of a regulated product.
• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of high-performance, fault-tolerant backend services supporting the FMX trading platform.
• Own services and features end-to-end: spec writing implementation instrumentation deployment monitoring iteration based on metrics.
• Work within and help modernise a Java codebase while contributing to new service development in Go, Java and Kotlin.
• Contribute to the architecture for order processing, market data distribution, and trade lifecycle management on a regulated product.
• Build and maintain reliable daily reporting pipelines, ensuring data integrity and full audit trails across all trading activity.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations; contribute to SLO definition, alerting strategy, and incident response for mission-critical trading infrastructure.
• Model and manage data for contracts, orders, positions, and settlements with an emphasis on correctness, integrity, and regulatory auditability.
• Collaborate with the DevOps/Platform team to ensure services are observable, scalable, and compliant with MNPI and insider trading restrictions.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, raising the bar on code quality, readability, security, and maintainability.
• Leverage AI

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