Staff Backend Engineer - Kotlin/Java for Scalable Systems

Fanatics Betting & Gaming; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Backend Staff Engineer at Fanatics Core to lead ambitious projects, shape team strategy, and deliver scalable backend systems from ideation to production. You will influence architecture and drive excellence across the stack.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, champion testing and observability, and help the mobile team ship features quickly while maintaining quality in a high-growth environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building scalable backend distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java is a plus.
• Drive best practices in backend development and mentoring.
• Strong observability with logging, monitoring, tracing.

Responsibilities

• Drive development, testing, documentation, and deployment of scalable software.
• Shape team strategy and influence direction of the organization.
• Lead end-to-end execution of complex features and systems from ideation to deployment.
• Define engineering principles and best practices.
• Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders on high-impact decisions.
• Lead incident resolution as part of on-call rotation.
• Mentor engineers and promote continuous learning.

Skills

Backend systems

Leadership

Spring Kotlin/Java

Observability

Communication

Mentoring

Agile

High-growth

Tools

Kafka

Amazon SQS

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Backend Staff Engineer at Fanatics Core to lead ambitious projects, shape team strategy, and deliver scalable backend systems from ideation to production. You will influence architecture and drive excellence across the stack.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, champion testing and observability, and help the mobile team ship features quickly while maintaining quality in a high-growth environment.