Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Kotlin

🕒 October 6

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $121k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Fanatics

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10,000+ employees

⚽ Sports

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

💰 $700M Private Equity Round - Fanatics on 2022-12

Sports • eCommerce • Retail

Fanatics is a global sports merchandise and apparel company focused on delivering officially licensed fan products and enhancing the fan experience. The company’s public site emphasizes a broad footprint, partnerships with sports organizations, brand protection, and multiple business lines (including Fanatics ONE), along with corporate responsibility, sourcing transparency, and investor relations. Fanatics operates e-commerce and retail channels and supports both consumer-facing sales and business partnerships tied to sports licensing and merchandising.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, test, document, and deploy high-quality software into production • Build features and tools used by the engineer’s team • Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues • Escalate tasks or projects that encounter roadblocks • Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge • Contribute to team planning and design discussions • Impact software quality and customer experience of product features • Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation • Help define and follow engineering strategy principles, guidelines, and best practices • Develop understanding of the industry, products, feature set, and roadmap • Work with product teams and internal stakeholders on technology decisions that improve products • Onboard and mentor junior engineers and interns • Stay current on software development technologies and trends • Attend occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant and evolvable backend distributed systems • Proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java is a plus • Ability to drive backend development best practices and mentor others in clean code, hexagonal/layered architectures, domain-driven design, and other design and architectural patterns • Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems • Expertise in Agile software delivery and driving process improvements across teams • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments • Excellent communication skills for conveying complex technical concepts to engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders • Team-first mentality and willingness to strive for better • Ability to thrive in a high-growth environment with evolving priorities and quick decisions • Preferred: strong experience in sports industry, gaming, and content delivery • Preferred: highly effective with Kotlin, Java, and/or Go • Preferred: expertise in Kafka or Amazon SQS and event-driven architectures • Preferred: familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Cloud Native, and Infrastructure as Code • Preferred: ability to work in legacy and greenfield codebases across different languages and environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary and bonus • Full-time employment benefits (details provided at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/) • Occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities