Senior Backend Engineer — Kotlin, Scale & Impact

Devconnectplatform; Northern (KY); 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 systems powering the Fanatics Core platform. You’ll work with Spring, Kotlin or Java, and modern cloud-native tooling to deliver high‑quality experiences for billions of monthly interactions.

You’ll collaborate with product and cross‑functional teams, review code, own features end‑to‑end, improve observability, and mentor junior engineers. Some travel to Fanatics offices and events may be required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building scalable backend systems with modern frameworks.
• Strong experience with Spring and Kotlin/Java.
• Mentor teammates and promote best practices in coding.
• Solid understanding of observability, logging, monitoring, and tracing.
• Experience with distributed messaging and cloud-native architectures.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.

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

Spring Kotlin/Java

Backend architecture

Agile delivery

Observability

Mentoring

Kafka

SQS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Go

Tools

Kafka

SQS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, test, and maintain scalable backend systems powering the Fanatics Core platform. You’ll work with Spring, Kotlin or Java, and modern cloud-native tooling to deliver high‑quality experiences for billions of monthly interactions.

You’ll collaborate with product and cross‑functional teams, review code, own features end‑to‑end, improve observability, and mentor junior engineers. Some travel to Fanatics offices and events may be required.