Company Overview

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative 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 over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores. 

As a market leader with more than 18,000 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.

Seeking a Front-End Architect to serve as the lead engineer on internal tooling and content management systems supporting the Topps Digital Collectibles sports and entertainment products. This position will be dedicated to building a best in class, next generation collectible content management system and other internal tools, while working on and maintaining existing products with the existing engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Major contributor in collecting requirements, planning, architecting, and developing next generation internal content creation tools.
• Provide expert technical support to other team members as needed across the Fanatics/Topps Collectibles division, including back-end engineers, front-end engineers, testers, product managers, project managers, contractors, and content producers.
• Develop a best-in-class collectible management system using a rich front end and developing REST APIs on the back end.
• Assist with coordinating the effort of other engineers and team members for projects related to the collectible management system and other internal tools.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• Communicate and work directly with Project Managers and Content Managers to understand their needs and transform those into a cohesive and unified product.
• Implementing unit and integration tests in a test-driven development mindset.
• Generate documentation about UI architecture, interactions and behaviors with REST APIs or any other mechanism to process data.

• 7 years of experience in building front end web applications.
• Strong experience as a decision maker / architect of web applications.
• Strong experience with single page web application frameworks like React, VueJS, or Angular.
• Strong experience developing HTML, CSS, LESS, Javascript, Typescript, and using web frameworks like Bootstrap.
• Strong experience designing and building intuitive user interfaces and experiences.
• Proven working experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Working experience with component-based micro front-end design patterns.
• Working experience with working with federated authentication, identify providers, SAML, and JWT.
• Proven experience in working on a small to medium size team of engineers, content managers, project managers, and QA.
• Understanding how to use GIT for source control management.

Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud. Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Feel free to ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of communication for interview, and ensure your communication is coming from a Fanatics or Fanatics Brand email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.fanaticsinc.com/careers

Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.

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