Sr. Engineering Manager – Application Platform & Trading Operations Enablement

Overview
At Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), a core division of Fanatics' mission to establish the ultimate end-to-end digital sports platform, we’re building a world where every fan’s passion is met with cutting-edge experiences. The Sr. Engineering Manager role within the OddsFactory team is a cornerstone of this vision. You’ll lead a high-impact team of Software Engineers focused on developing innovative technologies that drive our risk and trading systems.

You’ll lead two high-impact software engineering teams with distinct but complementary missions:

• Application Platform & Tooling builds and maintains shared frameworks, libraries, and tools that accelerate software delivery across OddsFactory.
• Trading Platform Operations ensures that trading systems are observably performant, production-hardened, and event-ready, especially during critical sporting moments.

Your role is to unify these capabilities under a single strategic vision: reduce friction, increase reliability, and raise the bar for engineering execution across the entire platform. 

Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering & Developer Enablement
  • Oversee development of reusable application-layer frameworks (e.g., messaging abstractions, observability modules, auth libraries) that serve as the foundation for all OddsFactory services.
  • Deliver tooling and developer experiences that improve local development, testing, and CI/CD workflows; enabling faster, safer releases.
  • Work closely with product-aligned teams to understand friction points and co-design platform solutions that drive adoption and impact.
  • Maintain clear interfaces and collaborative alignment with the Cloud Platform team while owning runtime-layer abstractions and developer-facing components.
• Operational Readiness & Trading Support
  • Guide your team in building operational playbooks, readiness strategies, and engineering processes that prepare the trading platform for peak traffic events.
  • Partner with trading and product teams to model and mitigate operational risk, reduce response times, and ensure system reliability during key sporting events.
  • Support real-time diagnostics and triage by enabling trading-critical observability, tooling, and performance tuning; without operating as support team
•  Joint Responsibilities Across Both Teams
  • Shape a combined roadmap that balances long-term platform investment with near-term operational readiness.
  • Foster an engineering culture rooted in enablement, ownership, and operational excellence; across both developer experience and system performance.
  • Create strong feedback loops between platform capabilities and their real-world usage in trading systems.
  • Mentor and grow engineers and team leads across both domains, helping them navigate technical challenges and career development.
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration and communication with stakeholders including Cloud Platform, Product, and Trading.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing multiple teams or domains.
• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience, preferably in a cloud-native, service-oriented environment (.NET/C# a plus).
• Proven experience building internal tools, frameworks, or platform libraries used across multiple teams.
• Demonstrated success leading teams responsible for production operations, readiness, or performance in a high-scale or event-driven domain.
• Strong cross-team collaboration skills, especially across platform, product, and operations boundaries.
• Excellent communication and strategic thinking skills; able to shift between technical depth and executive clarity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or similar (or equivalent experience).
• Experience leading distributed or remote teams.
• Passion for sports and/or the sports betting industry.
• Background in building observability frameworks or operational automation tooling.
• Passion for delivering platform value that is both technically sound and directly impactful to users.
• Start-up or high-growth environment experience, with a bias toward rapid learning and iteration.
• Strong team collaboration mindset and passion for working in a supportive, fast-paced environment.

Ready to build the future of sports betting? If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!

The expected salary range for this role is based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award. *Salary range is listed in USD; actual salary will vary based on location. *Salary Range: $160,000 - $265,000 per year (actual salary will be determined in part by a successful candidate’s geographic location). In addition to base salary, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, and more. We’ll also give you $700 to set up your home office!

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. 

Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.