Staff Software Engineer (Streaming Services)

About the Team

Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. Backed by world-class investors, operators, and sports & entertainment partners, we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators.

Role Summary

Fanatics Live & Collect is building the future of live commerce for sports fans and collectors, bringing together content, community, and commerce in highly interactive digital experiences.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical strategy and architecture behind Fanatics Live’s streaming experiences.

This role requires strong end-to-end engineering knowledge, with particular depth in frontend development. You’ll define how we build high-performance customer experiences using React and GraphQL, while influencing the backend services, APIs and event-driven systems that power them.

As one of the senior technical leaders within a new and growing team, your focus will extend beyond coding. You’ll set architectural direction, solve complex cross-team challenges and establish the engineering standards, practices and culture needed to scale successfully.

You’ll remain technically close to delivery—using prototypes, design reviews and targeted implementation to validate decisions and unblock teams—while creating leverage across the wider engineering organisation.

What You’ll Do

• Set the technical strategy for our consumer streaming product and supporting services.
• Define the end-to-end architecture across frontend applications, APIs, backend services and event-driven systems.
• Guide the development of scalable experiences combining live video, real-time interaction, discovery and commerce.
• Lead major technical decisions across performance, reliability, resilience and platform scalability.
• Create a clear technical roadmap that balances immediate product delivery with long-term platform health.
• Define how engineering teams design, build, review, test and operate software as the organisation scales.
• Establish reusable patterns and technical standards that improve quality and accelerate delivery across teams.
• Partner with engineering leaders, Product, Design and Data to turn ambitious product ideas into scalable solutions.
• Remain close to delivery through architecture reviews, prototyping, code reviews and targeted contributions to critical areas.
• Mentor engineers, build alignment across teams and raise the overall technical bar.
• Lead the technical response to significant production challenges and turn learnings into lasting platform improvements.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experie