Job Summary:

As the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, Fanatics is changing the way fans purchase their favorite team merchandise by partnering with top leagues, clubs and soccer brands worldwide to offer the largest collection of timeless and timely gear from every pro and college team online, on your phone, in stadiums or on-site at the world’s biggest sporting events. A top 50 Internet Retailer Company, Fanatics comprises the broadest online assortment by offering hundreds of thousands of officially licensed items via its Fanatics ( www.fanatics.com ), FansEdge (www.fansedge.com ), Kitbag ( www.kitbag.com ) and Majestic (www.majesticathletic.com) brands, as well as the largest selection of sports collectibles and memorabilia through Fanatics Authentic ( www.fanaticsauthentic.com ). A multi-channel company, 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 biggest global soccer clubs (Manchester United, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester City). The company's in-venue and event retail portfolio includes the NBA, NHL, NASCAR, Wimbledon, Kentucky Derby, The Ryder Cup, Manchester City, Texas Longhorns, Pittsburgh Pirates and New Jersey Devils, allowing fans to experience a seamless shopping experience across online, mobile and physical store locations.

Fanatics needs you! You are a talented Principal Engineer who is passionate about solving hard technology problems that have huge leverage for business. You enjoy mentoring senior and junior engineers, delighting users, building beautiful user (or RESTful) interfaces and writing code that you are proud of. You thrive at turning ideas into a product and clearing technical hurdles. You are a flexible technologist who knows that there isn’t one tool for all problems. You also are hungry to learn new technologies and apply them to difficult problems. You are passionate about shipping quality product and building strong teams that execute at a high level.

Responsibilities:

•Work closely with our Fanatics Vertical Engineering team to deliver solutions to drive growth and efficiency.

•Interaction with Business and Technology executives to identify pain points and opportunities to attack.

•Being a technology leader for the Vertical Engineering team.

•Help with recruiting a strong technical team that aligns with our mission and culture.

•Develop Back End applications.

•Develop Front-End applications

•Comfort building early POC’s to products that reach millions of users.

•Accurately estimating completion of deliverables.

•Integrating REST API’s from internal and external teams.

•Evangelize the work of yourself and the team.

Qualifications:

•10+ Years of Software Development experience

•Experience with multiple programming languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, C#, Ruby, PHP).

•Expert level knowledge of 2+ programming languages.

•Detail-oriented, with excellent analytical, technical and problem solving skills.

•Ability to thrive in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

•Bias for Action – You get stuff done.

•Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required

Fanatics is an EEO. No third party or recruiter resumes will be accepted for this role. Only those currently residing in the US will be considered for this role.