Staff Backend Engineer | Kotlin Lead & Scale Platforms

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

Job summary

Fanatics seeks a Backend Staff Engineer for the Core platform to act as a technical leader, shaping architecture and delivering high-impact features end-to-end. You will mentor engineers, drive best practices, and collaborate across product, design, and other squads while contributing to on-call incident resolution and building scalable, observable systems at scale.

You will champion excellence, influence strategy, and help the team move quickly in a high-growth environment with a strong

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building scalable backend systems.
• Proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java.
• Observability: logging, monitoring, tracing in distributed systems.
• Agile delivery with cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Drive development, testing, documentation, and deployment of scalable software.
• Shape team strategy with product/design to align with goals.
• Lead end-to-end execution from ideation to deployment.
• Define engineering principles and best practices.
• Lead incident resolution and on-call rotation.
• Mentor engineers and foster continuous learning.

Skills

Backend architecture

Spring/Kotlin/Java

Mentoring

Agile delivery

Communication

On-call/incidents

Cloud/Kubernetes

Tools

Kafka

Amazon SQS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Go

Job description

Fanatics seeks a Backend Staff Engineer for the Core platform to act as a technical leader, shaping architecture and delivering high-impact features end-to-end. You will mentor engineers, drive best practices, and collaborate across product, design, and other squads while contributing to on-call incident resolution and building scalable, observable systems at scale.

You will champion excellence, influence strategy, and help the team move quickly in a high-growth environment with a strong