Software Engineer III (FanApp)

ROLE OVERVIEW
Fanatics is looking for a Software Engineer III to join the FanApp team, where you will help build the next-generation shopping experience within a universal FanApp — creating intuitive, high-impact journeys that improve discovery, personalization, engagement, and conversion for sports fans. You will partner closely with product, design, backend, data, and platform teams to deliver reliable, performant, and measurable full-stack experiences end to end, with a focus on search, recommendations, merchandising, promotions, and product discovery. The Software Engineer III, FanApp 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 with product managers, designers, and engineers across teams to translate business goals into scalable technical solutions and deliver them with high quality.
• Contribute to code reviews, documentation, automation, and engineering best practices that raise the team's overall quality bar.
• Take ownership of well-scoped projects, drive execution from design through launch, and actively help improve team efficiency and delivery quality.

Fan & Customer Impact (Obsessed with Fans)

• Design, build, test, and ship high-quality user experiences across FanApp surfaces — including search, recommendations, merchandising, promotions, and product discovery.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, improve app responsiveness, and help create exceptional, conversion-driving fan experiences.
• Implement instrumentation and eventing that help the team understand fan behavior, feature adoption, experimentation outcomes, and funnel performance.
• Support production excellence by debugging issues, improving observability, and contributing to a strong quality and release culture.

Innovation & Problem Solving (Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit)

• Build robust integrations with backend APIs and services, with careful attention to performance, reliability, and

maintainability.

• Apply experimentation, A/B testing, and analytics to inform product decisions and continuously improve discovery

and conversion experiences.

• Explore and adopt modern patterns — including Server-driven UI, personalization systems, and high-scale

ecommerce techniques — to push FanApp forward.

• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to automate, instrument, and

optimize engineering workflows and fan-facing surfaces.

Ownership & Execution (Determined & Relentless Mindset)

• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and consistently deliver well-scoped features with strong quality and measurable impact.
• Drive execution end to end — from technical design through launch — with a bias toward clear communication, sound judgment, and on-time delivery.
• Support a strong release and quality culture through proactive debugging, improved observability, and accountability for production health.
• Help FanApp ship better discovery and conversion experiences for fans through thoughtful product engineering and close cross-functional collaboration.

CAPABILITIES & EXPERIENCE YOU BRING
Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building consumer-facing applications or platforms.
• Strong experience with modern frontend development technologies and patterns, including component-based UI development and API-driven applications.
• Solid foundation in JavaScript or TypeScript and experience building maintainable, scalable user-facing systems.
• Experience integrating with backend services using RESTful APIs and building resilient client-side data flows.
• Experience with Go, Java, or similar programming languages.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests and contributing to a culture of code quality and continuous improvement.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, collaboration, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building native apps, mobile web, or high-scale ecommerce experiences.
• Experience with Server-driven UI.
• Experience with search, recommendations, personalization, experimentation, or merchandising systems.
• Familiarity with A/B testing, analytics, and event instrumentation for consumer products.
• Experience improving performance, observability, and release quality for customer-facing applications.
• Experience working in cross-functional product and engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Prior experience serving as a tech lead on product or platform initiatives is a plus.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

WORK LOCATION
Hybrid: The primary place of performance of this role is the Company's office located in {{WORK LOCATION CITY, STATE}},
subject to the Company's current hybrid work policy. This role currently requires in-office presence {{IN-OFFICE SCHEDULE
— e.g. "Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday" or "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.

The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. When determining base pay as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

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