Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Kotlin

🕒 October 6

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $121k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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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

• Design, develop, test, document, and deploy high-quality software into production • Build features and tools used by the engineer’s team • Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues • Escalate tasks or projects that encounter roadblocks • Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge • Contribute to team planning and design discussions • Impact software quality and customer experience of product features • Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation • Help define and follow engineering strategy principles, guidelines, and best practices • Develop understanding of the industry, products, feature set, and roadmap • Work with product teams and internal stakeholders on technology decisions that improve products • Onboard and mentor junior engineers and interns • Stay current on software development technologies and trends • Attend occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ 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 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 strive for better • Ability to thrive in a high-growth environment with evolving priorities and quick decisions • 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, Cloud Native, and Infrastructure as Code • Preferred: ability to work in legacy and greenfield codebases across different languages and environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary and bonus • Full-time employment benefits (details 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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