Staff Backend Engineer

🕒 October 22

🏄 California, Florida, +4 more states – Remote

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💵 $171.8k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Fanatics

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10,000+ employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

⚽ Sports

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

eCommerce • Retail • Sports

Fanatics is a global sports merchandise and commerce company that designs, produces, and sells licensed sports apparel, memorabilia and fan gear. The company operates a large e-commerce and retail platform that partners with professional leagues, teams, and brands, and runs business units focused on merchandising operations and technology (e. g. , Fanatics ONE), brand protection, and a global footprint to serve fans worldwide. Fanatics emphasizes enhancing the fan experience, corporate responsibility, and investor relations.

📋 Description

• Lead technical design and delivery of complex, high-impact initiatives across Fanatics Live • Design and evolve scalable architectures for live commerce, discovery, community interaction, and transactional experiences • Solve complex engineering problems spanning multiple systems, services, and teams • Establish technical direction, reusable patterns, and engineering standards • Partner with Product and Design to translate customer and business opportunities into technical solutions • Contribute hands-on through architecture, prototyping, implementation, code review, debugging, and difficult engineering problem-solving • Identify and address scalability, reliability, security, performance, and operational risks • Balance delivery speed, customer experience, technical quality, operational complexity, and platform health • Improve observability, testing, deployment safety, performance, and resilience • Lead technical responses to significant production issues and implement platform improvements • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical leadership • Build alignment across engineering teams and communicate technical decisions to technical and non-technical partners

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including building and operating production software at scale • Deep expertise in modern web and software engineering, with significant experience in frontend, backend, API, distributed systems, or full-stack development • Experience architecting and delivering complex systems involving multiple services, components, or engineering teams • Experience leading significant technical initiatives without formal people-management authority • Strong understanding of scalable web architectures, APIs, caching, asynchronous processing, cloud infrastructure, performance, and system reliability • Ability to navigate ambiguous problems and create a clear path forward • Strong architectural judgment and ability to balance near-term delivery with long-term technical health • Experience influencing engineering standards, architecture, or development practices beyond immediate projects • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical decisions and tradeoffs • Track record of mentoring engineers • Nice to have: experience with high-scale consumer marketplaces, e-commerce, live streaming, social/community, payments, auctions, or real-time digital products • Nice to have: experience supporting high-profile live events or rapidly changing traffic patterns • Nice to have: experience with real-time communication technologies and event-driven architectures • Nice to have: experience optimizing consumer web applications for performance, reliability, and conversion

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary range excludes short-term and long-term incentive compensation • Benefits information provided via Fanatics benefits website

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