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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
Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.
We're hiring a Senior Principal Software Engineer to own the technical strategy and architecture for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming engineering team, driving the design and development of a highly scalable, fault-tolerant online platform. You'll work on critical areas such as Betting and Gaming market integration, risk management, tooling and other mobile/backed systems that deliver seamless customer experiences. This leader will drive complex cross-team initiatives, establish scalable technical patterns, improve reliability and operational excellence, and partner across Engineering, Product, and Security to ensure our most critical services are reusable, compliant, high-performing, and built to support rapid innovation.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for driving the design and development of a highly scalable, fault-tolerant online Betting and Gaming platform. You'll work on critical areas such as sportsbook market integration, risk management, tooling and other backed systems that deliver seamless customer experiences.
- Lead architecture for critical, cross-cutting systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and built for long-term reuse.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Platform leaders to shape priorities, sequencing, and technical trade-offs across multiple teams and domains.
- Drive the design and execution of the organization's most complex technical initiatives, especially those spanning teams, systems, and regulatory constraints.
- Establish and elevate engineering standards, design principles, and review practices that improve quality, maintainability, and operational readiness.
- Identify and resolve systemic technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and architectural contention, guiding teams toward pragmatic, durable solutions.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical decision-making across the organization, serving as a trusted technical leader to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems.
- Proven ability to set technical direction and influence architecture across multiple teams or domains.
- Outstanding system design and architectural judgment, especially in complex, high-scale environments.
- Deep experience building secure, reliable, and performant production systems.
- Track record of leading large, cross-cutting technical initiatives from design through adoption.
- Strong engineering judgment across scalability, operability, maintainability, and technical trade-offs.
- Experience building platforms, services, or frameworks that create leverage across an engineering organization.
- Excellent communicator with the ability to influence at both the technical and executive level.
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in one or more core platform domains such as identity and account systems, payments and transactions, loyalty and promotions, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
- Experience with mobile cross-platform technologies eg Kotlin Multiplatform.
- Experience thriving in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments.
If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!
Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connections and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
By submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy.
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
Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.
We're hiring a Senior Principal Software Engineer to own the technical strategy and architecture for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming engineering team, driving the design and development of a highly scalable, fault-tolerant online platform. You'll work on critical areas such as Betting and Gaming market integration, risk management, tooling and other mobile/backed systems that deliver seamless customer experiences. This leader will drive complex cross-team initiatives, establish scalable technical patterns, improve reliability and operational excellence, and partner across Engineering, Product, and Security to ensure our most critical services are reusable, compliant, high-performing, and built to support rapid innovation.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for driving the design and development of a highly scalable, fault-tolerant online Betting and Gaming platform. You'll work on critical areas such as sportsbook market integration, risk management, tooling and other backed systems that deliver seamless customer experiences.
- Lead architecture for critical, cross-cutting systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and built for long-term reuse.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Platform leaders to shape priorities, sequencing, and technical trade-offs across multiple teams and domains.
- Drive the design and execution of the organization's most complex technical initiatives, especially those spanning teams, systems, and regulatory constraints.
- Establish and elevate engineering standards, design principles, and review practices that improve quality, maintainability, and operational readiness.
- Identify and resolve systemic technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and architectural contention, guiding teams toward pragmatic, durable solutions.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical decision-making across the organization, serving as a trusted technical leader to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems.
- Proven ability to set technical direction and influence architecture across multiple teams or domains.
- Outstanding system design and architectural judgment, especially in complex, high-scale environments.
- Deep experience building secure, reliable, and performant production systems.
- Track record of leading large, cross-cutting technical initiatives from design through adoption.
- Strong engineering judgment across scalability, operability, maintainability, and technical trade-offs.
- Experience building platforms, services, or frameworks that create leverage across an engineering organization.
- Excellent communicator with the ability to influence at both the technical and executive level.
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in one or more core platform domains such as identity and account systems, payments and transactions, loyalty and promotions, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
- Experience with mobile cross-platform technologies eg Kotlin Multiplatform.
- Experience thriving in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments.
If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!
Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connections and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
By submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy.
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Verify your degree meets specialty occupation
H-1B1 visa requires your degree to directly relate to the Principal Software Engineer role. A computer science, software engineering, or electrical engineering degree maps cleanly. A general business or unrelated degree triggers additional scrutiny at the consulate, so prepare a credential evaluation in advance.
Use OFLC Wage Search before negotiating
Your employer must file a Labor Condition Application certifying your salary meets the DOL prevailing wage for Principal Software Engineer roles in the hiring city. Pull the OFLC Wage Search figures yourself so you know whether an offer clears the threshold before you accept.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search for Principal Software Engineer roles on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with verified DOL Labor Condition Application filing history for this occupation, so you're applying to companies that have already committed to H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship, not just ones open to it in theory.
Ask about consulate processing during the offer
Unlike H-1B visa, your employer doesn't file with USCIS. You apply directly at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore after the LCA is certified. Confirm your hiring manager understands this distinction so the onboarding timeline accounts for consulate scheduling, not a months-long USCIS adjudication window.
Prepare for dual-intent scrutiny at the consulate
H-1B1 visa does not confer dual intent, so consular officers will assess whether you intend to return to Singapore. As a senior-level candidate, document your ties to Singapore and frame your U.S. role as a fixed-term professional assignment rather than an open-ended relocation.
Check your O*NET profile before the interview
Consular officers sometimes reference O*NET occupation data to verify that Principal Software Engineer roles require a specific, directly related degree. Review the O*NET profile for your SOC code so you can articulate how your academic background and role responsibilities align with the defined specialty occupation criteria.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Principal Software Engineer role qualify for H-1B1 Singapore visa sponsorship?
Yes. Principal Software Engineer is a specialty occupation under the H-1B1 Singapore visa because it normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. Your employer must certify that requirement in the Labor Condition Application filed with DOL before you can apply at the consulate.
How does H-1B1 Singapore differ from H-1B for software engineers?
H-1B requires USCIS to approve a petition and subjects you to an annual lottery with roughly a one-in-four selection rate. H-1B1 Singapore skips both. Your employer files a Labor Condition Application with DOL, then you apply directly at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore. The 5,400-visa annual cap has never filled, so timing is not a constraint.
How do I find Principal Software Engineer jobs with H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship?
Migrate Mate filters job listings by employers with documented DOL Labor Condition Application filing history for H-1B1 Singapore, so you can identify companies that have already sponsored this visa type for software engineering roles rather than cold-applying and asking HR to research sponsorship from scratch.
Can I switch employers after starting a Principal Software Engineer role on H-1B1 Singapore?
Yes, but the process restarts from the beginning. Your new employer must file a fresh Labor Condition Application with DOL and you must obtain a new H-1B1 visa stamp at the consulate before starting the new role. H-1B1 does not carry the portability protections that H-1B holders have under AC21, so plan the transition carefully.
Does my Singaporean three-year degree qualify for H-1B1 specialty occupation?
A three-year Singapore university degree is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year bachelor's degree for H-1B1 visa purposes, particularly for computer science and engineering programs from NUS, NTU, or SMU. A foreign credential evaluation report from a recognized evaluation service strengthens your application if the consular officer raises the question.