Company Overview

Fanatics is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise and changing the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel and jerseys. Through an innovative, tech-infused approach to making and selling fan gear in today's on-demand culture, Fanatics operates more than 300 online and offline stores, including the e-commerce business for all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA), major media brands (NBC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports) and more than 200 collegiate and professional team properties, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs (Manchester United, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester City). Fanatics offers the largest collection of timeless and timely merchandise whether shopping online, on your phone, in stores, in stadiums or on-site at the world's biggest sporting events.

About the Team

Fanatics is first and foremost a technology company. We are powered by cutting-edge tech created by our small agile teams using the latest tools and technologies under our highly analytical, forward thinking, and open-minded leadership. As the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, we challenge ourselves by improving our new fully responsive NodeJS cloud commerce platform, Elasticsearch engine, and deep data science capabilities while building the best-in-class retail manufacturing and supply chain technologies. Our tech teams work together to revolutionize data science and engineering initiatives, provide highly scalable real-time and streaming platforms, and create secure e-commerce and in-stadium fan experience products. Our own e-commerce platform transacts in over 190 countries, 17 languages, and 14 currencies. Our motto is “#GSD”—get stuff done—and we do just that. If you want to be at the nexus of sports, commerce, and technology, come be a part of our industry-leading team here at Fanatics Tech.

Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is seeking to govern reliable and efficient delivery of a world-class multi-tenant global e-commerce platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software design, the SDLC of microservices operating in cloud based systems, networking standards, and information security policies.

Cloud Commerce Platform Experience Team's Traffic Integrity group is a highly technical engineering pod supporting the Architecture, Application, Global Network Topology, Security, Reliability and Performance Engineering systems that deliver a highly available business-driven digital experience to our global customers. This team designs, builds, maintains & manages public services that ensure rapid and reliable delivery of Fanatics suite of application and media responses.

As one of the early engineers on this newly formed cross-functional team based out of the San Francisco office, you will have influence designing, building, and maintaining the systems that handle and route validated public client requests within the context of the larger environment. This is a remote position with an option for onsite presence in one of our engineering headquarters.

Job Requirements 

5+ years’ experience building scalable applications

Strong programming background with development and code reviews in at least two modern software languages such as Java, Golang, NodeJS, C, C#, Erlang, Python

Strong development experience with HTTP Applications, RESTful APIs, Microservices

Critical Understanding of Network Topology standards, http connectivity, DNS resolution, client rendering and internet protocols

Exposure to container technology (docker/kubernetes)

Have a strong bias for making things happen and love the team aspect of product development

Be data oriented to support important decision making

Be an expert debugger of problems, being able to connect distributed logging into a coherent understanding

Be a subject matter expert for some of the systems we own, engage in active discussions and contribute to multiple systems

Demonstrate a passion for both learning and teaching on a daily basis

Minimum qualifications

BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering

Requires at least 5 years of software development experience

Proven experience working with Agile development methodologies and software development lifecycles

Ability to scale and lead major initiatives

Requires knowledge of open source application frameworks and service oriented architecture

Preferred qualifications

Design, Compute and Network Architecture of Content Delivery Networks (Akamai, Fastly, Cloudfront, Cloudflare, BaishanCloud)

Architecting and maintaining systems within a cloud computing environment (AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Azure, GCP)

Golang

Deep understanding of internet routing protocols and standards such as TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS & SSL connectivity, DNS, and Certificate Procurement 

NoSQL technologies like Cassandra, Kafka

Development experience with messaging architectures like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc

Prior work with distributed teams

Ability to break large tasks into smaller workable stories.

Basic understanding of machine learning and data pipeline creation.

Firewalls, routers, NAT gateways, VPN, proxies, load balancers, and other boundary security devices

Knowledge and experience with continuous delivery, including automated testing of various layers etc.

Experience with the following are a plus: React, Node.JS, MobX ,Go, Cassandra, Java, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker

Industry-level expertise in L4/Layer 7 Firewall & WAF Development with a focus on network security and DDoS protection is a plus

Expert reviewer and Code style enforcer

Development and enforcement of coding standards and guidelines

Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

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