Fanatics Betting & Gaming
Technology
SeniorSoftwareEngineerDistributedSystems
“Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Fanatics Betting & Gaming. Skills: Distributed systems, Event-driven infrastructure, High-throughput systems, Low-latency design. Design distributed systems. Build distributed systems”
What You'll Achieve.
Hold systems accountable
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Diagnose bottlenecks
On-call
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years software engineering, 5+ years distributed systems, 5+ years high-concurrency production, Expert Java or Kotlin, Expert Spring Boot, Command modern API design, Deep Kafka experience, Diagnose and resolve bottlenecks
Nice to Have
Experience real-time delivery systems, Familiarity financial platforms, Familiarity real-time trading, Familiarity prediction markets, Experience high-growth startup
What You'll Do.
Design distributed systems
Build distributed systems
Scale distributed systems
Architect for traffic spikes
Architect for concurrency
Own development event pipelines
Optimize event pipelines
Build low-latency data layers
Tune low-latency data layers
Implement resilience patterns
Enforce resilience patterns
Contribute user-facing systems
Solve fan-out problem
Partner with leadership
Align technical execution
Contribute build vs buy
Contribute platform strategy
Set engineering standards
Uphold engineering standards
Mentor junior engineers
Develop junior engineers
Raise technical floor
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with product; Partner with engineering leadership; Code reviews; RFCs; Technical documentation; Pairing; Design reviews
Process & Methodology
Platform strategy
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