Staff Backend Engineer (Kotlin) — Scalable Systems Leader

Fanatics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 144,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is a global digital sports platform seeking a Backend Staff Engineer to join Fanatics Core. You will lead end-to-end development of scalable backend systems, shaping architecture and guiding the team from ideation to production.

You’ll own code quality, drive best practices, collaborate with product and design, and mentor engineers while occasionally traveling to Fanatics offices for conferences and team events.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building scalable backend distributed systems.
• Experience with Spring with Kotlin and/or Java is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive development, testing, documentation, and deployment of scalable software into production.
• Lead end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Spring Framework

Distributed systems

Observability

Agile

Mentoring

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Amazon SQS

Go

Terraform

Job description

Fanatics is a global digital sports platform seeking a Backend Staff Engineer to join Fanatics Core. You will lead end-to-end development of scalable backend systems, shaping architecture and guiding the team from ideation to production.

You’ll own code quality, drive best practices, collaborate with product and design, and mentor engineers while occasionally traveling to Fanatics offices for conferences and team events.