Staff Engineer – Backend, Java

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $144k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Fanatics Betting & Gaming

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🎲 Gambling

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

Gambling • Sports • B2C

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is a consumer-facing U. S. sports betting and online casino operator (branded as Fanatics Sports & Casino / Fanatics Sportsbook / Fanatics Casino) that offers sportsbook betting, online casino games, event contract trading (Fanatics Markets), and a unified loyalty currency called FanCash. It provides mobile apps and web experiences, state-by-state availability across many U. S. jurisdictions, promotional offers, partnerships with sports teams, and responsible-gaming tools and disclosures. Morton St. Trading Investments, LLC handles the event-contract trading side and is CFTC-registered.

📋 Description

• Drive development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production • Develop 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 stakeholders on high-impact technical decisions aligned with business goals and long-term scalability • Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation • Identify and remove roadblocks, collaborating across teams on complex projects • Conduct and elevate code reviews • Steer team planning and design discussions and introduce innovative technical solutions • Improve software quality, testability, operational metrics, and team documentation • Mentor and coach engineers at all levels • Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations

🎯 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 • 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 • 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, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code • Preferred: ability to work in diverse legacy and greenfield codebases, languages, and environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time employment compensation • Bonus • Benefits information provided at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ • Occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

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