Staff Backend Engineer - Kotlin, Remote & Lead Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role with occasional travel

Job summary

Fanatics FBG in the United States is seeking a Staff-level backend engineer to shape technical direction for a global sports platform spanning ecommerce, collectibles, and betting products. You will stay hands-on while leading ambitious projects, partnering with product and design to ship features end-to-end.

The role emphasizes architecture, mentoring, incident response, and reliable production systems. You will drive best practices, observability, and cross-functional collaboration in a large

Qualifications

• 7+ years building scalable backend distributed systems.
• Proficiency with Spring plus Kotlin and/or Java.
• Drive backend best practices and mentoring others in clean code and architectural patterns.
• Knowledge of observability practices including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems.
• Agile delivery experience in large enterprise environments.
• Strong communication with engineers, executives, and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical execution from architecture to deployment.
• 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.
• Lead incident response as part of the on-call rotation.
• Mentor engineers at all levels and conduct code reviews to raise quality.

Skills

Spring

Kotlin

Java

Distributed systems

Observability

Agile delivery

Mentoring engineers

Code reviews

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Amazon SQS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Fanatics FBG in the United States is seeking a Staff-level backend engineer to shape technical direction for a global sports platform spanning ecommerce, collectibles, and betting products. You will stay hands-on while leading ambitious projects, partnering with product and design to ship features end-to-end.

The role emphasizes architecture, mentoring, incident response, and reliable production systems. You will drive best practices, observability, and cross-functional collaboration in a large