Senior Go Full-Stack Engineer: Platform & APIs Lead

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

Job summary

Fanatics Inc. is seeking a hands-on backend engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput services with a backend focus and full-stack exposure. You will own significant technical surface area across production systems used by multiple consumer products.

The role emphasizes Go-based services, REST/gRPC APIs, and frontend collaboration using JavaScript/TypeScript with React. Strong skills in cloud platforms, databases, and observability are essential, with on-call duties and mentorship

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering on production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go with concurrency and performance tuning.
• Experience building scalable backend services in microservices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production-grade services and APIs in Go.
• Lead technical design for medium and large features and drive delivery.
• Mentor engineers and participate in on-call incident response.
• Improve reliability and cost efficiency of owned systems.
• Drive architectural reviews and code quality improvements.
• Identify tech debt and align with product roadmap.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

REST/gRPC

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Databases

Cloud platforms

CI/CD IaC

Job description

Fanatics Inc. is seeking a hands-on backend engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput services with a backend focus and full-stack exposure. You will own significant technical surface area across production systems used by multiple consumer products.

The role emphasizes Go-based services, REST/gRPC APIs, and frontend collaboration using JavaScript/TypeScript with React. Strong skills in cloud platforms, databases, and observability are essential, with on-call duties and mentorship