Staff Backend Engineer (Kotlin) – Remote, Lead Architecture

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work with occasional travel

Competitive salary

Full-time benefits

Job summary

Fanatics Inc. is seeking a Staff-level backend engineer to set technical direction for distributed services powering a large-scale sports ecosystem spanning ecommerce, collectibles, and betting. You will stay hands-on while guiding architecture and delivering features end-to-end.

You will lead incident response, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design to drive scalable improvements and maintain high-quality software in a primarily remote environment with occasional office visits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building scalable backend distributed systems.
• Proficiency with Spring and Kotlin and/or Java.
• Experience with clean code, hexagonal or layered architectures, domain-driven design.
• Knowledge of logging, monitoring, tracing in distributed systems.
• Agile delivery with cross-functional collaboration in large enterprises.
• Strong communication with engineers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical execution of complex features, from architecture through deployment and refinement
• Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices across the team
• Drive development, testing, documentation, and deployment of scalable production software
• Partner with product, design, and stakeholders on high-impact technical decisions aligned with long-term scalability
• Lead incident response as part of the on-call rotation, ensuring rapid diagnosis and remediation
• Mentor engineers at all levels and conduct code reviews that raise the quality bar

Skills

Backend architecture

Spring

Kotlin/Java

Distributed systems

Observability

Agile

Communication

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

SQS

Job description

Fanatics Inc. is seeking a Staff-level backend engineer to set technical direction for distributed services powering a large-scale sports ecosystem spanning ecommerce, collectibles, and betting. You will stay hands-on while guiding architecture and delivering features end-to-end.

You will lead incident response, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design to drive scalable improvements and maintain high-quality software in a primarily remote environment with occasional office visits.