Senior Principal Engineer, Kotlin, Java, Kafka

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🕒 October 25, 2025

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $241k - $360k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 36%

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Fanatics, Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

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

• Work with complete ambiguity to identify overarching business problems and technology strategy across all domains and organization • Lead strategically important projects involving multiple teams to deliver solutions that are exemplary in terms of robustness, stability, scalability, cost effectiveness • Influence extends across the entire organization and collaborates across domains to drive key technology decisions through a cohesive strategy • Quickly identify when to troubleshoot to find a path forward in difficult situations • Be an exemplary technology leader for the organization as a whole and mentor across domains • Remove bottlenecks and make technical and design approach trade-off decisions: opportunity vs. architectural • Lead design decisions around systems architecture and/or product solutions, driving best practices and improving the speed of delivery • Make technology decisions that drive core business value through excellence in the platform • May lead code reviews to provide constructive direction • Proactively simplify code and resolve team architecture deficiencies • Define and implement best practices in operational excellence and mitigation strategy organizationally • Advise technology leaders, product team, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve products • Engage externally to represent the company through tech talks, white papers, or community projects • Develop expert level understanding of industry, product, feature set, and roadmap • Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development • Open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems (Some of our tech stack: Kotlin, Java, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Redis, Postgres) • Mastery of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different teams • Able to triage and debug system-wide production issues • Demonstrated experience mentoring other engineers • Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders) • Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills • Agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment • Thrives in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly • Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better • Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • 401K • Paid time off • GymPass • Pet Insurance • Family Care Benefits • Home office setup allowance of $700