Senior Software Engineer- AI SDLC Platform

The posting, as Fanatics Commerce wrote it

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

The Senior Software Engineer, AI SLDC Platform joins a small team that runs the software delivery platform behind some of the highest impact projects in Fanatics Commerce. The platform combines an in-house framework that turns early program ideas into specs and tickets an engineer or coding agent can execute, with the underlying Go and Python services, Temporal workers, knowledge pipeline, retrieval layer, MCP servers, and React app used to track delivery and capacity. This is a hands-on role in which you will own features from design through production, use coding agents daily, and take responsibility for what you ship. The Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform 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 program managers and program teams to understand needs, agree on scope, plan the work, and set realistic timelines
• Review code, keep peers current on the status of your work, and help the engineers around you
• Document what you build and share it through demos and clear technical communication

Fan & Customer Impact (Obsessed with Fans)

• Deliver platform features that give the Oracle integration, custom ERP development, and Product Lifecycle Management integration programs a dependable delivery lifecycle
• Give engineering leaders reliable visibility into delivery and capacity across many teams and thousands of work items through the React tracking app
• Build capacity and features so that additional programs can adopt the platform with confidence
• Triage production issues quickly and find root causes, such as slow endpoints or stuck jobs

Innovation & Problem Solving (Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit)

• Build and maintain the knowledge pipeline, using Temporal workflows to pull content from Zoom, SharePoint, Confluence, and Jira into a searchable knowledge base with chunking, embedding, and indexing
• Improve retrieval quality using curated evaluation datasets checked in CI
• Develop MCP (Mode

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ly 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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