Staff Backend Engineer (Kotlin) — Lead, Scale & Mentor

Fanatics; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Backend Staff Engineer to lead strategically and hands-on, balancing immediate business needs with long-term technical excellence and scalable systems.

You will drive development, testing, and deployment of high-quality software into production, mentor engineers, champion best practices, and lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation. Collaboration with product, data, and platform teams will be essential to delivering reliable services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Drive development, testing, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production.
• Mentor engineers, champion best practices, and lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation.

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Backend Staff Engineer to lead strategically and hands-on, balancing immediate business needs with long-term technical excellence and scalable systems.

You will drive development, testing, and deployment of high-quality software into production, mentor engineers, champion best practices, and lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation. Collaboration with product, data, and platform teams will be essential to delivering reliable services at scale.