Engineering Manager, Balance and Ledger - Core

About the role

Overview Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is on a mission to create the best online sportsbook in the industry. We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team that builds the Balance and Ledger platform: the shared ledger and customer-level balance that holds customer funds across Fanatics. This leader will own systems where accuracy matters most, guiding the team through complex and ambiguous problems while ensuring operational excellence, consistent delivery, and long-term impact. The team sits within the Customer, Accounts & Transactions (CAT) domain and works closely with the Payments team. The Engineering Manager plays a central role in shaping the architecture, processes, and engineering culture of the balance platform. You will lead backend engineers (Java, Spring Boot, AWS) who are responsible for the ledger, the rules that decide where each portion of a balance can be used, and the migration of existing wallets onto a shared platform. At FBG, we're revolutionizing sports betting with cutting-edge technology, a customer-first mindset, and a world-class engineering team. You'll have the opportunity to work on complex, high-scale challenges in an exciting and rapidly growing industry, as part of a team that values innovation, integrity, and excellence.

Responsibilities

• Operational Leadership & Ownership: Lead an engineering team that owns the ledger and balance services for customer funds, where correctness, auditability, and availability are key; drive operational excellence by setting high standards for security, reliability, observability, and on‑call practices; lead the phased migration of existing business wallets onto the shared ledger, including reconciliation, cutover, and rollback planning that avoids customer‑visible downtime; partner with Finance, Legal, and Compliance on fund attribution between businesses, settlement, chargebacks, and audit requirements; identify and resolve technical and operational risks before they affect the business.
• Team Performance & Delivery: Build and maintain a high‑performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development; define and execute a roadmap that balances new capabilities, migration work, technical health, and operational load; plan team capacity honestly, make tradeoffs visible, and hold the team to the commitments it makes; deliver maintainable, scalable software that handles high transaction volume without losing or double‑counting a transaction; stay close enough to the technical work to review designs, take part in architectural decisions, and unblock engineers.
• Communication, Stakeholder Management & Product Partnership: Communicate clearly with engineers, Product, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and executive stakeholders; build partnerships with the Payments team and with the teams in other Fanatics businesses that depend on the balance, and agree on ownership boundaries; write and present clear documentation, including roadmaps, vision documents, design reviews, and incident reviews; represent the balance platform's technical perspective in broader company planning.
• Navigating Complexity & Ambiguity: Lead the team through open questions that span engineering, finance, and regulation, using structured and data‑informed approaches; bring Product, Legal, Finance, and Engineering viewpoints together to make decisions that hold up over time; provide