Engineer III
Fanatics, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Own and evolve the backend architecture that powers fraud detection and responsible gaming features.
- Design and implement distributed systems in Java and Spring Boot, building scalable services and APIs for real-time risk evaluation, transaction monitoring, and behavioral analysis.
- Collaborate with Data Science, Risk, and Compliance teams to integrate fraud prevention models, transaction scoring engines, and responsible gaming rulesets into core backend flows.
- Architect event-driven systems leveraging technologies like Kafka to capture and analyze transactional and behavioral signals in real time.
- Lead large-scale technical initiatives, such as the modernization of fraud detection services, identity platform evolution, or real-time customer protection pipelines.
- Establish backend and API best practices, emphasizing security, observability, reliability, and compliance.
- Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Partner with cross-functional teams— including frontend, mobile, product, and analytics—to ensure seamless and secure end-to-end user experiences.
- Champion responsible gaming and anti-fraud principles, helping define system patterns that promote fairness and regulatory alignment.
- Lead architectural reviews, incident postmortems, and design sessions, ensuring consistent improvement and knowledge sharing.
- Stay ahead of emerging fraud, identity, and responsible gaming technologies, and advocate for pragmatic adoption that strengthens our platform.
- Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices or industry events for planning, collaboration, and team development.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot.
- Proven ability to design and evolve secure, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, payment systems, or fraud prevention patterns.
- Experience designing APIs and backend systems that integrate with risk, compliance, or regulatory services.
- Skilled at balancing performance, scalability, and compliance in high-traffic systems.
- Demonstrated success driving technical alignment and architectural strategy across multiple teams.
- Strong communicator who can clearly articulate complex technical solutions to engineering, product, and leadership audiences.
- Passion for customer protection, data integrity, and operational excellence.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment with evolving priorities.
Benefits
- Remote employee may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
JavaSpring Bootdistributed systemsAPIsKafkafraud detectiontransaction monitoringbehavioral analysissecurity best practicesobservability
Soft skills
mentoringtechnical excellenceaccountabilitycontinuous learningcommunicationcollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingadaptabilitycustomer protection