Senior Backend Engineer - Kotlin & Scalable Systems

Fanatics-fb44f34a; Jacksonville (FL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a senior Backend Engineer to design, build, test, and maintain scalable backend services powering the Fanatics platform. You will collaborate with product, design, and data teams to deliver reliable, high-performing software that supports millions of users.

You will drive best practices in backend engineering, mentor colleagues, and contribute to architectural decisions while navigating a fast-changing, growth-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• 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, and ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments
• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences

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 systems

Spring Kotlin

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Mentoring

Agile

Communication

On-call support

Tools

Kafka

Amazon SQS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Go

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a senior Backend Engineer to design, build, test, and maintain scalable backend services powering the Fanatics platform. You will collaborate with product, design, and data teams to deliver reliable, high-performing software that supports millions of users.

You will drive best practices in backend engineering, mentor colleagues, and contribute to architectural decisions while navigating a fast-changing, growth-oriented environment.