Platform Engineer III

About Fanatics Markets

Fanatics Markets is the real-money prediction and trading app where you can invest in moments you care about. Built on a secure platform, we let users predict real-world outcomes and trade on events they actually follow - from sports and entertainment to political elections and beyond. Our mission is to redefine how fans engage with the moments and markets that matter most.

We're looking for the right people to help us build the future of prediction markets.

Role Overview

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Fanatics Markets, you'll be responsible for powering the rapidly growing Fanatics sports book app. We embrace principles of data-driven development, operational excellence, and continuous process optimization to deliver a stable, scalable platform. Central to our strategy is Kotlin Multiplatform, which empowers us to deliver high-quality features quickly and consistently across multiple ecosystems. By focusing on object-oriented design, modern coding practices, open-source frameworks, and third-party platform integrations, we continuously innovate and deliver at speed in this exciting and fast-moving market.

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and inspire teams building distributed systems that power our core platforms. You will be responsible for growing high-performing engineering teams, shaping technical direction, and ensuring delivery of resilient and scalable services built on Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes. In this role, you will balance people leadership, organizational strategy, and technical oversight, enabling teams to deliver with excellence and speed.

Responsibilities

* Leverage AI tools to accelerate development velocity while maintaining code quality standards

* Establish and document team standards for AI tool usage (prompt patterns, code review checklists, validation strategies)

* Measure and report on AI tool ROI through concrete metrics (PR velocity, bug rates, test coverage)

* Identify and prevent common AI-generated code pitfalls (over-abstraction, missing edge cases, security vulnerabilities)

* Architect, build, and maintain highly available and scalable platform infrastructure to support our engineering teams.

* Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and developer tooling to streamline deployments, improve code quality, and enhance team productivity.

* Enhance platform security, implementing best practices to ensure compliance and safeguard the integrity of our systems.

* Collaborate closely with software engineers, product teams, and quant analysts to understand requirements and proactively deliver solutions that accelerate product development and innovation.

* Drive continuous improvements to operational processes, platform reliability, documentation, monitoring, and alerting systems.

* Foster a culture of operational excellence, sharing knowledge, and promoting best practices across teams.

* Support and enhance system observability through effective monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting strategies.

* Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for adoption of new tools and techniques that align with our platform strategy.

* Participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring platform stability and providing critical support for operational incidents.

* Occasionally travel for essential offsite meetings, special events, or collaborative team sessions.

Qualifications

* 5-7 years of proven experience in platform engineering, Dev Ops, or related infrastructure roles .

* Application development experience (fullstack preferred).

* Strong technical expertise in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred), infrastructure automation, and container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred).

* Demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure as Code systems such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Cloud Formation.

* Experience implementing and maintaining mature CI/CD release pipelines.

* Proficiency with programming and scripting languages (Java and Python preferred; Golang is a bonus).

* Experience with observability tooling, chaos testing, and incident management.

* Excellent influencing,…