Staff Backend Engineer – Foundations

🕒 February 24

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $180.5k - $237.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Fanatics, Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

🎮 Gaming

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

Gaming • Retail • eCommerce

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform that aims to enhance the fan experience for over 100 million sports enthusiasts worldwide. The company operates across several divisions including Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming. They offer fans the opportunity to buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle products, and headwear, collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets, as well as engage in sports betting. Fanatics partners with over 900 sports properties globally, including major leagues, teams, and athletes, and operates more than 2,000 retail locations. The company is committed to corporate responsibility with a focus on philanthropy, diversity and inclusion, brand protection, and sustainability.

📋 Description

• Drive the development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production • Develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry, product, architecture, and roadmap, leveraging this knowledge to shape team strategy and influence the direction of the organization • Lead the end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems, from ideation and architecture to deployment and refinement • Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices • Partner closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to make high-impact technical decisions that align with both business goals and long-term scalability • Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation, ensuring swift diagnosis and remediation of critical software issues • Demonstrate ability to lead or drive triage of difficult reliability issues and produce clear root-cause analysis. • Partner Cross functionally, and across multiple teams to bring complex features and projects from prototype to production. • Contribute to engineering excellence through documentation, tooling improvements, code reviews, and knowledge sharing. • Steer team planning and design discussions, introducing innovative approaches to solve technical challenges and optimize design patterns • Champion improvements to software quality, testability, operational metrics, and team documentation, setting a higher standard for the organization • Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth across the team • Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant and evolvable backend distributed systems; proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java is a plus. • Demonstrated ability to drive best practices in backend development and mentor others in effective coding and architectural strategies, such as clean code, hexagonal/layered architectures, domain driven design and other design and architectural patterns • Expertise in messaging technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Flink or Amazon SQS, with a solid understanding of event-driven architectures. • Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems. • Expertise in Agile software delivery, with a track record of modeling and driving process improvements across teams, and ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments, driving alignment and shared success. • Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders. • Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better. • Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote employees may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend.