Senior Go Engineer – Scale High-Throughput Backend Platform

Fanatics Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput Go services powering the Fan Ecosystem. You will own significant backend surface area, define technical direction, and collaborate across product, design, and other teams. The role includes mentoring, on-call rotation, and ensuring reliability and performance of systems.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software engineering, deep Go experience, and strong frontend exposure with TypeScript/React.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong Go (Golang) proficiency with concurrency, error handling, and performance tuning
• Experience designing, building, and scaling backend services and APIs in distributed microservices
• Proficient in JavaScript or TypeScript with React or similar front-end framework
• Solid knowledge of relational/NoSQL databases, caching, and messaging
• Experience with cloud infra (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containers, CI/CD, IaC
• Strong ops focus: observability, monitoring, and incident response
• Proven track record delivering projects with multiple contributors on time
• Familiar with Agile / SCRUM processes and cross-functional work

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate high-quality Go services and APIs
• Own technical design of medium-to-large features and systems
• Break down complex problems into deliverable work
• Lead and participate in design and architecture reviews
• Set standards in code reviews for correctness and readability
• Mentor engineers and onboard new hires
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response
• Improve reliability, performance, and cost of owned systems
• Define and track SLOs and operational metrics
• Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders on roadmaps
• Influence engineering principles and best practices
• Develop deep understanding of product, market, and roadmap to guide decisions

Skills

Go (Golang)

REST / gRPC

TypeScript

React

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Observability

Agile / SCRUM

Cross-functional

Job description

Fanatics Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput Go services powering the Fan Ecosystem. You will own significant backend surface area, define technical direction, and collaborate across product, design, and other teams. The role includes mentoring, on-call rotation, and ensuring reliability and performance of systems.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software engineering, deep Go experience, and strong frontend exposure with TypeScript/React.