Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Kotlin

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $121k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Sky Betting & Gaming

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1001 - 5000 employees

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gambling • Gaming • B2C

Sky Betting & Gaming is a UK-based consumer-facing betting and online gaming operator. Now part of Flutter UK & Ireland and the wider Flutter Entertainment group, the brand is presented alongside Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars and tombola as a market-leading provider of trusted entertainment to millions of customers. The company emphasizes responsible play, customer experience and uses digital platforms (web and apps) to deliver betting and gaming services, with operational presence in Leeds and registration under Flutter Entertainment plc.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, test, document, and deploy high-quality scalable systems • Build features and tools used by the engineering team • Participate in on-call rotation and troubleshoot software issues • Escalate tasks or projects encountering roadblocks • Participate in code reviews and share knowledge • Contribute to team planning and design discussions • Improve software quality, customer experience, testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation • Help define and adhere to engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices • Develop understanding of the sports betting, ecommerce, collectibles, and platform products and roadmap • Work with product teams and internal stakeholders on technology decisions • Onboard and mentor junior engineers and interns • Keep current with 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 • Demonstrated ability to drive best practices in backend development and mentor others in effective coding and architectural strategies, such as 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, with a track record of modeling and driving process improvements across teams • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments, driving alignment and shared success • Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences • Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better • Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly • Preferred: strong experience in the sports industry, gaming and content delivery • Preferred: highly effective with Kotlin, Java and/or Go • Preferred: expertise in messaging technologies such as Kafka or Amazon SQS, with a solid understanding of event-driven architectures • Preferred: comfortable working with Cloud Native and Infrastructure as Code, like Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform • Preferred: ability to work in diverse codebases, both legacy and greenfield, in different languages and environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary and bonus • Full-time employment benefits; details available at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ • Remote work arrangement • Occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities