Staff Engineer – Backend, Kotlin

🕒 October 6

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $144k - $235k / 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

• 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

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