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.

Primary Responsibilities include

Ability to design, develop, own and maintain solutions.

Write great code in multiple languages, operating on various OS distributions.

Flexible, adaptable and able to autonomously manage multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast paced environment.

Team player - work well independently and in multi-team, cross-discipline environments.

Improving problems such as, Product Ranking, Query Understanding, Exploratory Search and Personalized Search.

Working on both sides of the pipeline to improve and refine data for search.

Design and deliver highly scalable multi-tiered distributed software applications.

Be part of an agile team and sharing responsibilities of testing and development as the role demands.

Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving skills with orientation towards innovation and open source tools.

Flexible approach to analyzing technical issues and clearly communicating recommendations/solutions.

Cross team development with Product Managers, Project Managers, Engineers and QA to deploy innovative solutions to meet business unit requirements.

Required Skills

An experienced Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience GoLang, SQL, JAVA, C# or another major programming language.

Experience mentoring, reviewing and working with junior team members.

Familiar with interfaces, generics and other object oriented programming concepts and how to apply them for code maintainability, reuse and testability.

Strong understanding of dynamic, asynchronous, multi-threaded and parallel programming.

Strong understanding of static memory, dynamic memory and memory management.

Make programming decisions with robustness, speed and readability in mind.

Strong track record of excellence and of delivering high quality innovative software.

Building distributed back-end systems. 

Capability of building highly efficient code that leverages tuned data structures and data access algorithms with respect to big O notation.

Knowledge of and experience building web servers and server side programming and in particular service and web API development.

Self-motivated, passionate for technology and strong driver for results and continual improvement.

Strong skills for verbal & written communication targeting technical and non-technical audiences.

Desired Skills

Passion for sports and working in an awesome sports office environment.

Experience with Python, Ruby, Bash or other scripting language.

Experience designing and working with data finding and retrieval systems, such as Elasticsearch.

Knowledge of any document and entity relationship data stores and where and how to use them, such as SQL Server, Postgres, Couchbase, etc.

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.

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.