Senior Principal Software Engineer (REMOTE)

Fanatics is building a global digital sports platform spanning commerce, collectibles, and betting and gaming. The Senior Principal Software Engineer will own technical strategy and architecture for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming engineering team, leading the design of scalable, fault-tolerant online platforms and critical cross-team initiatives. The role also focuses on engineering standards, reliability, operational excellence, and mentoring senior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Set the technical direction for driving the design and development of a highly scalable, fault-tolerant online Betting and Gaming platform. You'll work on critical areas such as sportsbook market integration, risk management, tooling and other backed systems that deliver seamless customer experiences
• Lead architecture for critical, cross-cutting systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and built for long-term reuse
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Platform leaders to shape priorities, sequencing, and technical trade-offs across multiple teams and domains
• Drive the design and execution of the organization’s most complex technical initiatives, especially those spanning teams, systems, and regulatory constraints
• Establish and elevate engineering standards, design principles, and review practices that improve quality, maintainability, and operational readiness
• Identify and resolve systemic technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and architectural contention, guiding teams toward pragmatic, durable solutions
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical decision-making across the organization, serving as a trusted technical leader to executives and cross-functional stakeholders

Requirements:

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems
• Proven ability to set technical direction and influence architecture across multiple teams or domains
• Outstanding system design and architectural judgment, especially in complex, high-scale environments
• Deep experience building secure, reliable, and performant production systems
• Track record of leading large, cross-cutting technical initiatives from design through adoption
• Strong engineering judgment across scalability, operability, maintainability, and technical trade-offs
• Experience building platforms, services, or frameworks that create leverage across an engineering organization
• Excellent communicator with the ability to influence at both the technical and executive level
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
• Experience in one or more core platform domains such as identity and account systems, payments and transactions, loyalty and promotions, platform engineering, or developer productivity
• Experience with mobile cross-platform technologies eg Kotlin Multiplatform
• Experience thriving in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments