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Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform, complete with offerings that excite fans and maximize the reach and presence for partners across the entire sports ecosystem. Come help us build a company the world has never seen before! We are first and foremost a technology company. We build innovative fan experiences through highly analytical, forward thinking, and open-minded collaboration. We are passionate about evaluating and finding the right tech for the jobs at hand, and we get excited about building solutions for modern challenges.

Fanatics is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise that changes the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel and jerseys through an innovative and tech-infused approach to making and selling fan gear in today’s on-demand culture. We have the world’s largest collection of officially licensed fan gear from all the leagues, teams and players our fans love. We operate more than 300 online and offline stores including e-commerce business with all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA), major media brands (NBC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports) and over 150 collegiate and professional team properties. We partner with over 1000 vendors including Adidas, Nike, Reebok and Under Armor.

The FanStreams team at Fanatics has the grand vision of making many of the traditional batch-oriented processes into real time systems and is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with the passion and ingenuity to build streams of data across various domains of Fanatics world. These streams will power Data Science, BI & Site optimizations. The FanStreams team is responsible for building, managing complex stream processing topolgies using the latest open source tech stack, build metrics and visualizations on the generated streams and create varied data sets for different forms of consumption and access patterns. We’re looking for a seasoned engineer to help us build and scale the next generation of streaming platforms and infrastructure at Fanatics.

What Will You Do?

Build data platforms and streaming engines that are real time in nature
Optimizing existing data platforms and infrastructure while exploring other technologies
Provide technical leadership to the data engineering team on how data should be stored and processed more efficiently and quickly at scale
Build and scale stream & batch processing platforms using the latest open-source technologies
Work with data engineering teams and help with reference implementation for different use cases
Improve existing tools to deliver value to the users of the platform
Work with data engineers to create services that can ingest and supply data to and from external sources and ensure data quality and timeliness

What Are We Looking For?

8+ years of software development experience with at least 3+ years of experience on open-source big data technologies
Knowledge of common design patterns used in Complex Event Processing
Proficiency in Streaming technologies: Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, KSQL, Spark, Spark Streaming
Proficiency in Java, Scala
Strong hands on experience in SQL, Hive, Spark SQL, Data Modeling, Schema design.
Experience and deep understanding of traditional, NoSQL and columnar databases
Experience of building scalable infrastructure to support stream, batch and micro-batch data processing

Bonus points

You’ve worked with Amazon Web Services.

Things We Care About

Your career growth, your ideas, your work-life balance, and your well-being.
Diversity and Inclusion
Our Company Culture and Values
Providing outstanding Company Perks and Benefits

Company Overview

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports ecosystem.

The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, through Topps as a cornerstone of the business, building a new model for the collectibles and trading cards hobby with top leagues and players association partners; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.

As a market leader with more than 9,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support. We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.

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