Staff Backend Engineer - Kotlin (Remote, Lead)

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Staff Engineer - Backend/Kotlin to lead scalable backend systems across our Fanatics Core platform. You will drive development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality software, guiding architectural decisions and championing best practices.

Strong collaboration with product, design, and other teams is essential. Ideal candidates have 7+ years in backend distributed systems, deep Kotlin/Java expertise, and experience with Spring, observability, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building highly scalable backend distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java.
• Observability practices including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems.
• Agile software delivery with cross-functional collaboration in large enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Drive development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production.
• Lead end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems from ideation to deployment.
• Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices.
• Partner with product, design, and stakeholders to align technical decisions with business goals.
• Lead incident resolution as part of on-call rotation and remove roadblocks to maintain momentum.
• Mentor engineers and promote continuous learning across the team.

Skills

Backend design

Kotlin/Java

Distributed systems

Spring Framework

Code reviews

Mentoring

On-call

Tools

Kafka

Amazon SQS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Staff Engineer - Backend/Kotlin to lead scalable backend systems across our Fanatics Core platform. You will drive development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality software, guiding architectural decisions and championing best practices.

Strong collaboration with product, design, and other teams is essential. Ideal candidates have 7+ years in backend distributed systems, deep Kotlin/Java expertise, and experience with Spring, observability, and