Senior Backend Engineer — Kotlin/Java, Scalable Sports Platform

Devconnectplatform; United States; On-site; USD 121,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, test, and maintain scalable services for our global sports platform. You will contribute to production-grade systems, collaborate with product teams, and participate in on-call rotations to keep services healthy.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of backend experience, proficiency with Spring and Kotlin/Java, and familiarity with messaging systems like Kafka or SQS.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant backend distributed systems.
• Proficiency with Spring and Kotlin and/or Java is a plus.
• Experience mentoring others in coding and architectural strategies.
• Knowledge of observability: logging, monitoring, tracing in distributed systems.
• Experience with Agile software delivery and cross-functional collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills across diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production.
• Build features and tools used by the team.
• Participate in on-call rotation to troubleshoot issues.
• Escalate when tasks hit roadblocks and participate in code reviews.
• Collaborate with product and stakeholders to influence technical decisions.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns and stay current with new technologies.

Skills

Backend development

Spring Framework

Mentoring

Agile methodologies

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Amazon SQS

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Go

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, test, and maintain scalable services for our global sports platform. You will contribute to production-grade systems, collaborate with product teams, and participate in on-call rotations to keep services healthy.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of backend experience, proficiency with Spring and Kotlin/Java, and familiarity with messaging systems like Kafka or SQS.