Senior Backend Software Engineer (Elixir)

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 Collectibles is redefining the future of collecting by combining technology, live commerce and community to create the world's most engaging collectibles platform. As part of the wider Fanatics ecosystem, we power experiences for millions of sports fans and collectors across a portfolio that includes Topps, Fanatics Collect and Fanatics Live, alongside exclusive partnerships with some of the world's biggest sports leagues, entertainment brands and athletes—including MLB, UEFA, Formula 1, Disney, Marvel and, most recently, David Beckham. Our platforms power everything from buying and selling collectibles to live shopping, creator-led breaks and real-time marketplace experiences. Behind every experience are highly scalable, distributed systems designed to support global audiences, low-latency interactions and millions of transactions. Role Summary We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help evolve the backend platform powering Fanatics Collect and Fanatics Live. You'll design and build distributed systems that enable real-time commerce, live shopping experiences and global transactions for our collectors. Working at the heart of our Engineering organisation, you'll own business-critical backend services that support expansion, acquisition integration and the shared transaction infrastructure used across Fanatics Collectibles products. This is a highly technical role where you'll solve complex distributed systems challenges, building resilient, event-driven services that deliver high throughput, low latency and exceptional reliability at global scale. What You'll Actually Work On Designing and scaling highly available distributed systems serving millions of usersBuilding resilient, event-driven backend services powering real-time commerce and live experiencesDesigning and evolving our shared transaction, payments and ledger platform across multiple productsScaling multi-currency, cross-border payment and settlement systemsBuilding high-performance APIs powering web, mobile and creator experiencesIntegrating newly acquired platforms into the wider Fanatics ecosystemSolving complex challenges around reconciliation, fraud prevention, refunds, payment orchestration and financial accuracyImproving platform observability, reliability, resilience and fault toleranceSupporting international expansion through region-specific compliance, taxation and localisation requirementsOptimising backend services for high throughput, low latency and horizontal scalability Key Responsibilities Own critical backend services within a high-scale, distributed platformDesign resilient microservices and event-driven architecturesDrive architectural decisions across platform and transaction systemsBuild systems that prioritise reliability, scalability and operational excellenceMentor engineers and raise engineering standards across the teamPartner closely with Product, Frontend, Mobile and Platform Engineering teamsCollaborate across Fanatics Collect and Fanatics Live to deliver seamless collector experiencesRemain highly hands-on, designing and implementing business-critical backend systems What We're Looking For 6+ years of backend software engineering experienceStrong experience building distributed systems at scaleExperience designing resilient APIs and microservice architecturesDeep understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing and event-driven systemsExperience building high-throughput, low-latency backend servicesStrong understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern backend infrastructureExperience designing observable, resilient and fault-tolerant systemsComfortable making architectural decisions in fast-moving environments We build much of our platform in Elixir, taking advantage of its strengths for highly concurrent, distributed systems. Experience with Elixir is a bonus—not a requirement. If you've built scalable backend systems in Java, Kotlin, Go, Node.js or Python and enjoy learning new technologies, we'd love to hear from you. You'll thrive if you enjoy solving difficult distributed systems problems, taking ownership of platform architecture and building technology that operates at truly global scale. The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. Subject to applicable laws, Fanatics Collectibles may choose to run a background check. 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 email address (including @collectfanatics.com). 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