Senior Backend Engineer - Kotlin, Scalable Systems

Fanatics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 121,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, test, and maintain scalable backend services that power our Fanatics Core ecosystem. You will work across Kotlin/Java, Spring, and distributed systems to deliver reliable customer experiences.

You will collaborate with product and infrastructure teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and stay current with cloud-native patterns including Kubernetes and event-driven architectures.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience building scalable backend distributed systems.
• Experience with Spring in Kotlin or Java.
• Observability practices: logging, monitoring, tracing.
• Agile software delivery and cross-functional collaboration.
• Excellent communication and team orientation.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production.
• Build features and tools for the team.
• Participate in on-call rotation to troubleshoot issues.
• Code reviews to maintain quality and share knowledge.
• Contribute to planning and design discussions.
• Improve testability and operational metrics.
• Define and adhere to engineering principles and practices.
• Understand industry, product, roadmap.
• Collaborate with product and stakeholders on tech decisions.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns.
• Stay current with technologies and trends.
• Occasional travel to Fanatics offices for events.

Skills

Backend systems

Spring

Kotlin

Java

Mentoring

Observability

Agile

Communication

Teamwork

High growth

Tools

Kafka

Amazon SQS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, test, and maintain scalable backend services that power our Fanatics Core ecosystem. You will work across Kotlin/Java, Spring, and distributed systems to deliver reliable customer experiences.

You will collaborate with product and infrastructure teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and stay current with cloud-native patterns including Kubernetes and event-driven architectures.