Engineering Manager, Balance and Ledger – Core

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Oversee the engineering team responsible for managing ledger and balance services related to customer funds.

• Establish benchmarks for security, reliability, observability, and on-call procedures.

• Direct the phased migration of current business wallets to the shared ledger, including aspects of reconciliation, cutover, and rollback strategies.

• Collaborate with Finance, Legal, and Compliance on matters such as fund attribution, settlement, chargebacks, and audit requirements.

• Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks.

• Develop and sustain a high-performing engineering team through recruitment, coaching, performance evaluations, and career advancement.

• Outline and implement the roadmap, balancing the introduction of new capabilities, migration tasks, technical health, and operational demands.

• Organize team capacity, make tradeoffs transparent, and hold the team accountable for their commitments.

• Produce maintainable and scalable software capable of handling high transaction volumes without transaction loss or duplication.

• Evaluate designs, engage in architectural decisions, and assist engineers in overcoming obstacles.

• Liaise with Engineering, Product, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and executive stakeholders.

• Foster partnerships with Payments and other Fanatics business teams, establishing clear ownership boundaries.

• Draft and present roadmaps, vision documents, design reviews, and incident analyses.

• Advocate for the balance platform’s technical viewpoint in company planning sessions.

• Drive structured, data-informed decision-making across engineering, finance, and regulatory domains.

• Provide clarity as requirements, business onboarding, and regulatory expectations evolve.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3-5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.

• Proven history of delivering secure, scalable systems in regulated or high-stakes settings.

• Experience leading teams or contributing within a Java and AWS ecosystem is preferred.

• Familiarity with ledgers, wallets, balance services, payments, or other financial systems of record is highly desirable.

• Understanding of transactional consistency, idempotency, and data modeling principles.

• Background in event-driven architectures and message streaming platforms like Kafka.

• Experience managing migrations of live, high-traffic systems with minimal impact on customers.

• Ability to balance strategic vision with technical expertise.

• Excellent communication skills and an aptitude for influencing stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Finance, Legal, and Compliance.

• Experience navigating complex, cross-functional, and regulatory challenges.

• Commitment to operational excellence and the creation of trusted systems.

• Enthusiasm for mentoring and developing engineers while promoting accountability, empathy, and innovation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Base salary plus bonus.

• Full-time employment benefits.

• Occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other venues for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

• Possible in-person interview components.

• Participation in Better: LIVE, a multi-day cultural immersion program in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires.

• Benefits information is available at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/.