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 Fanatics is looking for a Software Engineer III to join the FanApp team, where you will help build the next-generation shopping experience within a universal FanApp — creating intuitive, high-impact journeys that improve discovery, personalization, engagement, and conversion for sports fans. You will partner closely with product, design, backend, data, and platform teams to deliver reliable, performant, and measurable full-stack experiences end to end, with a focus on search, recommendations, merchandising, promotions, and product discovery. The Software Engineer III, FanApp 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 product managers, designers, and engineers across teams to translate business goals into scalable technical solutions and deliver them with high quality. • Contribute to code reviews, documentation, automation, and engineering best practices that raise the team's overall quality bar. • Take ownership of well-scoped projects, drive execution from design through launch, and actively help improve team efficiency and delivery quality.
Fan & Customer Impact (Obsessed with Fans) • Design, build, test, and ship high-quality user experiences across FanApp surfaces — including search, recommendations, merchandising, promotions, and product discovery. • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, improve app responsiveness, and help create exceptional, conversion-driving fan experiences. • Implement instrumentation and eventing that help the team understand fan behavior, feature adoption, experimentation outcomes, and funnel performance. • Support production excellence by debugging issues, improving observability, and contributing to a strong quality and release culture. Innovation & Problem Solving (Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit) • Build robust integrations with backend APIs and services, with careful attention to performance, reliability, and maintainability. • Apply experimentation, A/B testing, and analytics to inform product decisions and continuously improve discovery and conversion experiences. • Explore and adopt modern patterns — including Server-driven UI, personalization systems, and high-scale ecommerce techniques — to push FanApp forward. • Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to automate, instrument, and optimize engineering workflows and fan-facing surfaces.
Ownership & Execution (Determined & Relentless Mindset) • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and consistently deliver well-scoped features with strong quality and measurable impact. • Drive execution end to end — from technical design through launch — with a bias toward clear communication, sound judgment, and on-time delivery. • Support a strong release and quality culture through proactive debugging, improved observability, and accountability for production health. • Help FanApp ship better discovery and conversion experiences for fans through thoughtful product engineering and close cross-functional collaboration.
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 of professional software engineering experience building consumer-facing applications or platforms. • Strong experience with modern frontend development technologies and patterns, including component-based UI development and API-driven applications. • Solid foundation in JavaScript or TypeScript and experience building maintainable, scalable user-facing systems. • Experience integrating with backend services using RESTful APIs and building resilient client-side data flows. • Experience with Go, Java, or similar programming languages. • Experience writing unit and integration tests and contributing to a culture of code quality and continuous improvement. • Strong problem-solving, debugging, collaboration, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications: • Experience building native apps, mobile web, or high-scale ecommerce experiences. • Experience with Server-driven UI. • Experience with search, recommendations, personalization, experimentation, or merchandising systems. • Familiarity with A/B testing, analytics, and event instrumentation for consumer products. • Experience improving performance, observability, and release quality for customer-facing applications. • Experience working in cross-functional product and engineering teams in a fast-paced environment. • Prior experience serving as a tech lead on product or platform initiatives is a plus.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
WORK LOCATION Hybrid: The primary place of performance of this role is the Company's office located in {{WORK LOCATION CITY, STATE}}, subject to the Company's current hybrid work policy. This role currently requires in-office presence {{IN-OFFICE SCHEDULE — e.g. "Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday" or "3 days per week"}}.
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 benefitsatfanatics.com Salary Range $146,000 — $180,000 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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HOW WILL YOU DRIVE IMPACT Success is measured by the ability to deliver results through BOLD capabilities and measurable outcomes.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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