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Fanatics

China-based licensed sports merchandise retailer

Software Engineer 3 - Data

Data EngineeringUpdated on Nov 14
Full-timeLondon, UKNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Three to five years of professional software or data engineering experience.
  • Strong SQL and Python skills, with solid experience building and operating production data pipelines.
  • Ability to investigate and root-cause pipeline issues independently before escalating.
  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or similar, and a cloud data warehouse or lakehouse such as Snowflake, Databricks, or similar.
  • A solid understanding of data pipeline concepts, including idempotency, schema evolution, backfills, and data quality and testing.
  • Experience giving substantive code review feedback beyond style or formatting comments.
  • Ability to write clear technical handovers, ask sharp questions in spec review, and explain data lineage investigations to non-technical stakeholders.
  • A track record of taking ownership of known-class problems end-to-end rather than needing step-by-step direction.

Responsibilities

  • Implement new ingestion sources end-to-end against a senior engineer's design, including connector code, DAG, schema, monitoring, and catalog registration; extend the team's existing framework when a source requires an unsupported pattern.
  • Investigate pipeline failures independently, recognize known classes of issues, and implement the documented fix without escalating.
  • Before shipping a new pipeline, identify downstream consumers, assess what could break if data is late or incorrect, and flag gaps during spec review before writing code.
  • Write clear handovers when escalating unresolved issues, including what was tried, what was ruled out, and where behavior diverges.
  • Review peers' pipeline pull requests and identify non-obvious issues, such as missing idempotency checks and race conditions, that could cause incorrect downstream data.
  • Turn ambiguous data accuracy questions into structured investigations by tracing data lineage from source to warehouse and communicating findings.
  • Raise concerns during spec review as specific, well-reasoned questions without unnecessarily blocking progress.
  • Support data security and governance work, including personally identifiable information masking and access controls, and contribute to data delivery work such as reverse ETL integrations.
  • Build working relationships with internal stakeholders and help scope and clarify requirements for new work.
  • Mentor Data Engineer II colleagues on their first significant projects by pairing on difficult decisions and helping them apply team conventions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience extending or building reusable pipeline frameworks or templates.
  • Exposure to reverse ETL tools or patterns, personally identifiable information masking, or data access governance such as role-based access control.
  • Exposure to observability or monitoring tools such as Datadog for pipeline health and alerting.
  • Some experience mentoring or informally supporting more junior engineers.
  • Background in gaming, betting, e-commerce, or another regulated or high-compliance industry.

About the Company

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Fanatics

China-based licensed sports merchandise retailer

Fanatics China is a joint venture between Fanatics Inc. and Hillhouse Capital that localizes and scales licensed sports merchandise for China. It designs, manufactures, and markets fan gear for Chinese consumers, operating a multi-channel model that includes building and running e-commerce sites for global leagues and teams, exploring online marketplaces, and developing physical retail concepts. Its product workflow combines technology, data, and on-demand manufacturing to manage the entire supply chain, enabling fast response to demand. The company differentiates itself through a China-focused approach backed by Hillhouse’s network and investments, its end-to-end vertical commerce model, and partnerships with hundreds of sports organizations, which together help it navigate China’s complex retail landscape. The goal is to satisfy a previously underserved Chinese market for licensed sports merchandise by creating localized products and channels that connect fans with official gear.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total funding
$5.2B
Headquarters
Huangpu, China
Founded
1995

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