Senior Backend Engineer (Kotlin) — Build scalable services

Fanatics Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Core is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend systems powering Fanatics’ digital sports platform. You will own features end-to-end, participate in architecture reviews, and mentor junior engineers across cross-functional teams.

Applicants should have 5+ years building scalable distributed systems with Spring, Kotlin, or Java, and be comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that values customer experience and delivery speed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable backend distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java is a plus.
• Ability to drive best practices and mentor others in architecture and coding.
• Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across diverse stakeholders.
• Thrives in a high-growth environment with shifting priorities.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to Fanatics offices.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production.
• Build features and tools that you and your team use.
• Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues.
• Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge.
• Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches.
• Impact software quality and customer experience of product features.
• Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation.
• Help your team define and adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy.
• Develop a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap.
• Work closely with our product team and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products.
• Help to onboard and mentor junior engineers and interns.
• Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development.
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

Skills

Backend development

Spring

Kotlin

Java

Distributed systems

Observability

Agile methodologies

Mentoring

Code reviews

Tools

Spring

Kotlin

Java

Job description

Fanatics Core is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend systems powering Fanatics’ digital sports platform. You will own features end-to-end, participate in architecture reviews, and mentor junior engineers across cross-functional teams.

Applicants should have 5+ years building scalable distributed systems with Spring, Kotlin, or Java, and be comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that values customer experience and delivery speed.