Staff Engineer – Backend, Kotlin

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $144k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 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

• Drive development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production • Build industry, product, and roadmap understanding 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 stakeholders on technical decisions aligned with business goals and scalability • Lead incident resolution during the on-call rotation • Identify and remove project roadblocks through cross-team collaboration • Conduct and elevate code reviews • Steer team planning and design discussions • Improve software quality, testability, operational metrics, and documentation • Mentor and coach engineers at all levels • Remain open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations

🎯 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 • Ability to drive backend development best practices and mentor others in coding and architectural strategies • Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems • Expertise in Agile software delivery and 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 diverse audiences • Team-first mentality and willingness to strive for better • Ability to thrive in a high-growth environment with evolving priorities • Preferred: experience in sports industry, gaming and content delivery • Preferred: Kotlin, Java and/or Go • Preferred: Kafka or Amazon SQS and event-driven architectures • Preferred: Kubernetes, Helm and 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 • Opportunity for occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities • Benefits information available at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/