Staff Engineer – Backend, Kotlin

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $144k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Fanatics

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Drive the development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production • Develop comprehensive understanding of the industry, product, and roadmap to shape team strategy and organizational direction • Lead end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems from ideation and architecture through deployment and refinement • Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices • Partner with product, design, and other stakeholders on high-impact technical decisions aligned with business goals and scalability • Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation • Identify and remove roadblocks while collaborating across teams on complex projects • Conduct and elevate code reviews • Steer team planning and design discussions and optimize design patterns • Champion improvements to software quality, testability, operational metrics, and documentation • Mentor and coach engineers at all levels • Attend 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 • Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems • Expertise in Agile software delivery • Track record of modeling 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 do what it takes to get the job done • Ability to thrive in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly • 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 and Terraform • Preferred: ability to work in legacy and greenfield codebases, languages, and environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Base and bonus compensation • Full-time employment • Benefits information available at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ • Remote work arrangement • Occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities