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title: 'Staff Backend Engineer at Fanatics Collectibles'
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# Staff Backend Engineer at Fanatics Collectibles

- **Company:** Fanatics Collectibles
- **Location:** Dallas, TX / Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY / Seattle, WA / Tigard OR, United States / Weston, FL
- **Compensation:** $172k–$215k
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fanaticscollectibles/jobs/4459041009

## Job description

## About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

## 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 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 help shape and build the web and software platforms behind Fanatics Live. You’ll tackle some of our most challenging technical problems while helping establish the architecture, engineering practices, and technical direction that enable our teams to move quickly and build reliably at scale.

This is a highly technical individual contributor role for an engineer who enjoys being hands-on while also creating leverage across teams. You’ll partner with engineers, Product, Design, Data, and other stakeholders to turn ambitious product ideas into scalable, reliable customer experiences.

## What You’ll Do

- Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, high-impact initiatives across Fanatics Live.
- Design and evolve scalable architectures supporting live commerce, discovery, community interaction, and transactional experiences.
- Solve complex and ambiguous engineering problems that span multiple systems, services, and teams.
- Establish technical direction, reusable patterns, and engineering standards that enable teams to build faster and more reliably.
- Partner with Product and Design to translate customer and business opportunities into thoughtful technical solutions.
- Remain hands-on through architecture, prototyping, implementation, code review, debugging, and solving particularly challenging engineering problems.
- Identify and address scalability, reliability, security, performance, and operational risks.
- Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, customer experience, technical quality, operational complexity, and long-term platform health.
- Improve observability, testing, deployment safety, performance, and resilience across critical Fanatics Live experiences.
- Lead technical response to significant production issues and translate learnings into durable platform improvements.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day technical leadership.
- Build alignment across engineering teams and communicate complex technical decisions clearly to technical and non-technical partners.

## What We’re Looking For

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience building and operating production software at scale.
- Deep expertise in modern web and software engineering, with significant experience in frontend, backend, API, distributed systems, or full-stack development.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering complex systems involving multiple services, components, or engineering teams.
- Experience leading significant technical initiatives without relying on formal people-management authority.
- Strong understanding of scalable web architectures, APIs, caching, asynchronous processing, cloud infrastructure, performance, and system reliability.
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguous problems, identify the most important technical challenges, and create a clear path forward.
- Strong architectural judgment and an ability to balance near-term delivery with long-term technical health.
- Experience influencing engineering standards, architecture, or development practices beyond your immediate projects.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions and tradeoffs to a variety of audiences.
- A track record of mentoring engineers and making the engineers around you more effective.

## Nice to Have

- Experience building high-scale consumer marketplaces, e-commerce, live streaming, social/community, payments, auctions, or other real-time digital products.
- Experience building software supporting high-profile live events or rapidly changing traffic patterns.
- Experience with real-time communication technologies and event-driven architectures.
- Experience optimizing consumer web applications for performance, reliability, and conversion.

Fanatics Live brings together creators, fans, interactive live experiences, commerce, and community, making experience with real-time and high-scale consumer platforms particularly relevant to the role.

Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud.  Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Feel free to ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of communication for interview, and ensure your communication is coming from a Fanatics email address (including @collectfanatics.com).  For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at [www.fanaticsinc.com/careers](http://www.fanaticsinc.com/careers) 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/

USA Remote Salary Range $171,760—$215,000 USD

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Fanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Fanatics recruiting, please do not respond and report it here.

## About Fanatics Collectibles

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fanatics Collectibles is a leading licensee, producer, designer, and seller of physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and digital collectibles, operating as the collectibles division of global sports retail giant Fanatics Inc.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of private company Fanatics Inc.)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States (primary business roles); major operations also in Sunnyvale, TX and Tigard, OR [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collectibles)
- **Founded**: Division launched around 2021-2022 (parent company Fanatics Inc. founded 1995)
- **Founders**: Michael Rubin (founder of Fanatics Inc.); collectibles leadership team includes industry veterans

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Sports trading cards and collectibles (physical and digital manufacturing, marketplace, and livestream commerce)
- **Target customers**: B2C collectors, hobbyists, and investors; B2B partnerships with leagues, teams, and creators
- **Mission or purpose**: “Relentlessly focused on improving the collector experience and growing the hobby for the benefit of all” [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collectibles)

## Products & Services
- **[Fanatics Collect Marketplace](https://www.fanaticscollect.com/sell)**: An online marketplace for buying and selling trading cards, memorabilia, and collectibles, featuring vaulting, grading partnerships (PSA, CGC, SGC, Beckett), and consignment services.
- **[Fanatics Live](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collect)**: A livestream shopping app for live box breaks, creator-run events, and real-time card purchasing (launched summer 2024, acquired Voggt for European expansion).
- **Physical & Digital Trading Cards**: Licensed manufacturing of trading cards for MLB, NFL, NBA, and other leagues under brands like Topps and Panini (through exclusive league deals).
- **High-End Private Sales**: Partnership with Sotheby’s to sell cards valued at $100K+ [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collect).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Parent company Fanatics Inc. valued at approximately $31 billion (2024, per Forbes) – collectibles division share not separately disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Over 3.1 million total cards sold and 740,000 total collectors on Fanatics Collect platform [fanaticscollect.com](https://www.fanaticscollect.com/sell).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fanatics Inc. investors include Silver Lake, SoftBank, and Michael Rubin. Key partners: MLB, NFL, NBA, MLBPA, NFLPA, NBPA, Sotheby’s, and grading services PSA etc.
- **Growth Signals**: Exclusive long-term licensing with major U.S. sports leagues; launch of Fanatics Collect and Fanatics Live in 2024; acquisition of European livestream platform Voggt; expansion into high-end auctions via Sotheby’s; 170+ open jobs globally [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fanaticscollectibles).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Exclusive League Deals**: Holds exclusive rights to produce physical and digital trading cards for MLB, NFL, NBA (and related players associations), creating a near-monopoly on officially licensed cards.
- **Vertical Integration**: Controls design, manufacturing, marketplace, grading, vaulting, and livestream distribution, capturing value at every step.
- **Scale & Brand**: Backed by Fanatics’ global retail infrastructure, access to athletes, media partnerships, and a massive customer base.

## Strategic Focus
- **Digital Ecosystem**: Expanding from physical cards into digital collectibles, NFTs, and app-based marketplaces.
- **Livestream Commerce**: Scaling Fanatics Live (including international via Voggt) to replicate the social “breaking” experience.
- **International Growth**: Building presence in Europe (Paris, London, Frankfurt, Milan) and Asia (Shanghai, Hong Kong) with dedicated business roles.
- **Collector Experience**: Enhancing platform with AI-driven pricing (Card Ladder integration), instant payouts, and consignment convenience.

## Why Work Here
- **Dynamic Industry**: Work at the intersection of sports, pop culture, and technology with a company that “owns the conversation” in collectibles.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Rapidly expanding division with new products (live streaming, marketplace, international) and hundreds of open roles across engineering, product, marketing, operations, and more.
- **Global Presence**: Offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and operations hubs in Texas and Oregon; hybrid/office policies vary by role.
- **Culture**: Described as having a “world-class executive team” focused on innovation and operational excellence [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collectibles).
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work directly with major sports leagues, athletes, and cutting edge live-commerce tech; roles in data analytics, software engineering, supply chain, and creative.

## Sources
1. [Fanatics Inc. – Fanatics Collectibles](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collectibles)
2. [Fanatics Inc. – Fanatics Collect](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collect)
3. [Fanatics Collect – Sell/Consign](https://www.fanaticscollect.com/sell)
4. [Fanatics Collectibles Careers – Greenhouse](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fanaticscollectibles)
5. [Fanatics Collectibles Job Listings (171 jobs)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fanaticscollectibles/jobs/4208219009)

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