Senior Software Engineer, AI SDLC Platform

About the role

Fanatics Commerce is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, operating a vertically integrated platform that designs, manufactures, and delivers officially licensed apparel, jerseys, headwear, and collectibles for major leagues, teams, and events worldwide. With more than 900 e-commerce sites and a global omnichannel presence across digital, in-venue, and retail, Fanatics Commerce reaches fans in over 180 countries and powers official fan experiences for many of the world's most iconic sports properties.

At Fanatics, we bring our BOLD Leadership Principles to life every day - building championship teams, obsessing over fans, acting with entrepreneurial speed, and delivering with a determined and relentless mindset.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Senior Software Engineer, AI SLDC Platform joins a small team that runs the software delivery platform behind some of the highest impact projects in Fanatics Commerce. The platform combines an in-house framework that turns early program ideas into specs and tickets an engineer or coding agent can execute, with the underlying Go and Python services, Temporal workers, knowledge pipeline, retrieval layer, MCP servers, and React app used to track delivery and capacity. This is a hands-on role in which you will own features from design through production, use coding agents daily, and take responsibility for what you ship. The Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform delivers business and fan impact through BOLD leadership and execution excellence, leveraging data, automation, and AI-enabled insights.

HOW WILL YOU DRIVE IMPACT

Success is measured by the ability to deliver results through BOLD capabilities and measurable outcomes.

Team & Leadership Impact (Build Championship Teams)

Partner with program managers and program teams to understand needs, agree on scope, plan the work, and set realistic timelines

Review code, keep peers current on the status of your work, and help the engineers around you

Document what you build and share it through demos and clear technical communication

Fan & Customer Impact (Obsessed with Fans)

Deliver platform features that give the Oracle integration, custom ERP development, and Product Lifecycle Management integration programs a dependable delivery lifecycle

Give engineering leaders reliable visibility into delivery and capacity across many teams and thousands of work items through the React tracking app

Build capacity and features so that additional programs can adopt the platform with confidence

Triage production issues quickly and find root causes, such as slow endpoints or stuck jobs

Innovation & Problem Solving (Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit)

Build and maintain the knowledge pipeline, using Temporal workflows to pull content from Zoom, SharePoint, Confluence, and Jira into a searchable knowledge base with chunking, embedding, and indexing

Improve retrieval quality using curated evaluation datasets checked in CI

Develop MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that give agents read-only access to program and knowledge data, with caller identity propagated, access checked, and tool calls audited

Maintain the skill framework that program teams use to turn approved specs into tickets and compliance artifacts

Ownership & Execution (Determined & Relentless Mindset)

Own features from design through rollout: break work into clear stories, design components, and write specs, API and schema contracts, and sequence diagrams

Make decisions independently, bringing in teammates when their input is needed

Use coding agents for production work, breaking features into pieces an agent can finish and holding generated code to the same review standard as hand-written code

Deliver on commitments and flag delays early

AI & DIGITAL CAPABILITY

We are building a future-ready organization. This role is expected to:

Apply AI and technology to improve efficiency, quality, and outcomes

Use data and digital tools to inform decisions and enhance performance

Demonstrate curiosity and adaptability in adopting new technologies and ways of working

Contribute to a culture of innovation and continuous improvement

CAPABILITIES & EXPERIENCE YOU BRING

Required Qualifications:

5+ years building and running production software, with deep expertise in at least one area of a stack like this one and willingness to work outside it

Strong in Python or Go, with relational database depth in schema design, migrations, and query performance

Comfortable designing APIs and working with containers and CI/CD

Experience shipping production code with LLM coding agents, including scoping tasks so an agent can finish them, supplying the right context, critically reviewing results, and knowing when to write the code yourself

Commitment to quality at speed: tests ship with every change, and you can identify what an agent got wrong and explain why

Experience running what you built, including live triage and diagnosing slow endpoints or stuck jobs

Hands-on experience with LLMs in real systems

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

WORK LOCATION

Remote: As a fully remote role, the primary place of performance will be your residence or other approved remote location.

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/

Salary Range

$138,000—$172,000 USD

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 and 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.

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 Commerce is a leading designer, manufacturer, and seller of licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods. It operates a vertically-integrated platform of digital and physical capabilities for leading sports leagues, teams, colleges, and associations globally – as well as its flagship site, www.fanatics.com.

Fanatics Commerce has a broad range of online, sports venue, and vertical apparel partnerships worldwide, including comprehensive partnerships with leading leagues, teams, colleges, and sports organizations across the world—including the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Formula 1, and Australian Football League (AFL); the Dallas Cowboys, Golden State Warriors, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea FC, and Tokyo Giants; the University of Notre Dame, University of Alabama, and University of Texas; the International Olympic Committee (IOC), England Rugby, and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).

At Fanatics Commerce, we infuse our BOLD Leadership Principles in everything we do:

· Build Championship Teams

· Obsessed with Fans

· Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit

· Determined and Relentless Mindset

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