Software Development Engineer (SE-III)

Software Development Engineer III (SDE-III)

At Fanatics, we bring our BOLD Leadership Principles to life every day—building championship teams, obsessing over fans, acting with limitless entrepreneurial spirit, and delivering with a determined and relentless mindset.

As we continue to scale our global platform, the Software Development Engineer III will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling full-stack AI-powered systems that drive critical business workflows.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Software Development Engineer III is a senior individual contributor responsible for owning end-to-end full-stack solutions — from cloud-native backend services and APIs to modern front-end interfaces — built for scale, reliability, and performance. This role requires deep technical expertise across the stack, hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, and the ability to evaluate and integrate emerging AI/ML technologies into production-grade engineering workflows. The Software Development Engineer III delivers business and fan impact through BOLD leadership and execution excellence, leveraging data, automation, and AI-enabled insights.

Team & Leadership Impact (Build Championship Teams)

• Partner cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineering teams to translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and the establishment of engineering best practices that raise the bar across the team.
• Contribute to a strong engineering culture by proactively sharing knowledge, championing code quality and observability standards, and supporting a collaborative, high-performance team environment.

Fan & Customer Impact (Obsessed with Fans)

• Build and maintain highly reliable, performant systems that directly power the digital experiences fans interact with across Fanatics Commerce's global platform.
• Ensure solutions are designed with scalability and uptime in mind, minimizing disruption and delivering consistent, seamless fan-facing functionality.
• Translate business and product requirements into technical designs that keep the fan experience at the center of every architectural decision.
• Drive improvements to system observability and monitoring so that issues impacting fans are identified and resolved rapidly.

Innovation & Problem Solving (Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit)

• Evaluate and integrate the latest AI/ML tools and frameworks — including LLM-based agents, RAG pipelines, vector databases, prompt engineering, and AI copilots — into product and engineering workflows to drive automation and efficiency.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and company-wide AI initiatives, and proactively bring relevant innovations into the team's roadmap.
• Architect and deploy cloud-native applications on AWS, leveraging services such as Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and IAM to build secure, scalable infrastructure.
• Identify and prototype new approaches to reduce technical debt, improve system performance, and unlock new capabilities for the business.

Ownership & Execution (Determined & Relentless Mindset)

• Own the full software development lifecycle — design, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration — with an uncompromising focus on code quality, security, and reliability.
• Proactively identify technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and scalability risks, and drive initiatives to resolve them before they impact the business.
• Operate with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to work independently in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, making sound technical decisions without waiting for direction.
• Consistently deliver complex, full-stack systems end-to-end with a track record of high-quality outcomes on time and at scale.

CAPABILITIES & EXPERIENCE YOU BRING

Required Qualifications:

• 4–5 years of professional software development experience with a strong track record of owning complex, full-stack systems end-to-end.
• Strong proficiency in backend development using languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, or Go, paired with hands-on experience in modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services spanning compute, storage, networking, serverless, and container orchestration (Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM).
• Practical experience working with or integrating AI/LLM technologies, including OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, LangChain, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar), or building AI-powered features and agents in production environments.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, SQL and NoSQL databases, caching strategies, and API design patterns (REST/GraphQL).
• Strong command of CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and mentor other engineers in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

WORK LOCATION

On-site: Your work location will be onsite in Hyderabad, Telangana.

Remote: As a fully remote role, the primary place of performance will be your residence or other approved remote location.

Hybrid: The primary place of performance of this role is the Company's office located in Hyderabad, Telangana, subject to the Company's current hybrid work policy. This role currently requires in-office presence 3 days per week.

At Fanatics, we operate with a BOLD mindset—We Build Championship Teams, we're Obsessed with Fans, we embrace a Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit, and we approach every challenge with a Determined & Relentless Mindset. If you're ready to contribute to a dynamic, fast-paced environment that thrives on collaboration and growth, we want you to be part of our team.