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, 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

• 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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