Senior Software Engineer - NCF
Fanatics
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s passionate about building high-quality, event-driven web applications that scale. In this role, you’ll be a key contributor to the platforms that power our collectibles ecosystem. You’ll work hands-on with modern web technologies, contribute to architectural decisions, and help shape the engineering culture of a fast-growing team.
What You’ll Do- Design, develop, and maintain event-driven services and real-time web applications using Elixir and Phoenix LiveView.
- Build scalable, fault-tolerant systems leveraging asynchronous communication patterns (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS/SQS).
- Partner with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to deliver impactful features from concept to production.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with a focus on performance and reliability.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and help evolve our event-driven and microservices ecosystem.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in on-call rotation and help troubleshoot production issues with a blameless mindset.
- 5+ years of experience developing and supporting production-grade, event-driven web applications.
- Strong proficiency in Elixir and the Phoenix framework (experience with LiveView is a significant plus).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, message-driven architectures, and data consistency models.
- Familiarity with AWS services (e.g., Lambda, S3, RDS, ECS/EKS) and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience designing and maintaining RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for delivering clean, well-tested software.
- Self-starter with the ability to drive technical initiatives with minimal direction.
- Experience with RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes (EKS).
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Knowledge of frontend performance tuning and LiveView optimization.
- Interest in sports, collectibles, or fan engagement platforms.
The salary range for this position is $160,000 - $200,000, which 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.
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Fanatics Collectibles is a new model and vision for the hobby, fundamentally changing the experience for current and future collectors, leagues, and players across many U.S. and international professional and college sports. The organization has long-term, exclusive rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards for several sports and entertainment properties, including MLB, MLBPA, the Premier League, MLS, UFC, Formula 1 as well as Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars, among others. In January 2022, Fanatics Collectibles announced the acquisition of Topps, establishing the preeminent licensed trading card brand as the cornerstone of Fanatics’ trading cards and collectibles business, and jumpstarted its MLB and MLBPA rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards