Fanatics
Staff Engineer, Payments - Core
$190K–$238K
New York, NY, United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
Jacksonville, Florida, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Owns the architecture and technical direction of Fanatics’ payments platform, building reliable payment flows and integrations across its businesses.
What you'll do
- Architect and build payment services, provider integrations, transaction routing, and deposit and withdrawal flows.
- Lead provider onboarding, regulatory and security work, incident reviews, and cross-team technical alignment.
- Improve payment approval rates and costs while supporting reliable, compliant movement of funds.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot.
- Production experience building and operating payment systems.
- Experience designing secure, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems and handling third-party failures.
- Experience setting technical direction across teams; working knowledge of payment-data security and PCI DSS.
Nice to have
- Experience in online gaming, sports betting, fintech, or banking.
- Experience with payment orchestration, banking integrations, reconciliation, or AWS, Kubernetes, and observability tools.
Pay
$190,000 — $237,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, PCI DSS, AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog, Grafana
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