Senior Go Backend Engineer – Platform & Full-Stack Lead

fanaticsfbg; United States; Remote; USD 122,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

fanaticsfbg is seeking a senior engineer to design and operate the shared platform services powering a large-scale consumer product ecosystem, including commerce, digital collectibles, and sports betting experiences. You will work on backend Go services and APIs with meaningful contributions to TypeScript and React front ends, owning surfaces end-to-end.

The role is hands-on and full-stack with a backend center of gravity, offering opportunities to set technical direction, mentor peers, and ship

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go, including concurrency patterns, error handling, testing, profiling, and performance tuning.
• Experience designing, building, and scaling backend services and APIs (REST and/or gRPC) within distributed, microservices environments.
• Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript, with hands-on experience using React or another modern front-end framework.
• Solid grounding in relational and/or NoSQL data stores, caching layers, and event streaming systems such as Kafka, SQS, or SNS.
• Cloud infrastructure experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure, including containers, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong operational instincts around observability, monitoring, alerting, and debugging production issues under pressure.
• Track record of leading multi-contributor projects to delivery on time without sacrificing quality, within Agile and Scrum workflows.
• Nice to have: Experience building or integrating identity and access management systems, covering authentication, authorization, SSO, and account lifecycle.
• Nice to have: Familiarity with identity standards and protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT, MFA, and session or token lifecycle management.
• Nice to have: Hands-on work with identity providers or CIAM platforms like Okta, Auth0, ForgeRock, AWS Cognito, or Ping, or with building an in-house identity platform.
• Nice to have: Background in account security, fraud prevention, PII handling, or regulatory-driven engineering such as KYC, GDPR, or CCPA.
• Nice to have: Experience designing systems for high-traffic consumer products with spiky, event-driven load.
• Nice to have: Platform or shared-services work where consumers are other engineering teams.
• Nice to have: Startup environment experience, or domain background in sports, commerce, media, or another consumer-scale industry.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship production-grade Go services and APIs, owning the full lifecycle from design and testing through documentation and ongoing operations
• Drive the technical design of medium-to-large features and systems, weighing trade-offs, documenting decisions, and carrying work through to completion
• Break down ambiguous problems into well-scoped, deliverable work for yourself and other engineers on the team
• Lead and participate in design and architecture reviews, and set the standard in code reviews for correctness, readability, testability, and operational safety
• Mentor and onboard engineers, serving as a technical point of contact for the systems you own
• Take part in the on-call rotation, drive incident response, and lead blameless postmortems that produce concrete fixes
• Partner with product, design, and other stakeholders to shape the roadmap, and act on SLOs and operational excellence metrics

Skills

Go

TypeScript

React

Distributed systems

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Kafka

SQS

SNS

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

fanaticsfbg is seeking a senior engineer to design and operate the shared platform services powering a large-scale consumer product ecosystem, including commerce, digital collectibles, and sports betting experiences. You will work on backend Go services and APIs with meaningful contributions to TypeScript and React front ends, owning surfaces end-to-end.

The role is hands-on and full-stack with a backend center of gravity, offering opportunities to set technical direction, mentor peers, and ship