Staff Backend Engineer (Kotlin) — Scale & Lead

Fanatics Betting & Gaming; New York (NY); Remote; USD 144,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Backend Staff Engineer to lead scalable backend systems and drive platform-level features across the Fanatics Core stack. You will balance strategic direction with hands-on coding, mentoring peers and shaping architecture to support a growing sports betting and gaming ecosystem.

You will collaborate with product, design, and other stakeholders to deliver robust services, improve observability, and ensure quality as the organization scales globally from New

Qualifications

• 7+ years building scalable backend distributed systems.
• Drive backend best practices and mentor others in architecture and coding.
• Strong observability and agile delivery mindset across teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software.
• Lead end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems from ideation to deployment.
• Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices.
• Mentor and coach engineers across the team and lead code reviews.

Skills

Backend systems

Spring Kotlin/Java

Distributed systems

Observability

Agile delivery

Mentoring

Communication

Kafka

Amazon SQS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Tools

Kafka

Amazon SQS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Backend Staff Engineer to lead scalable backend systems and drive platform-level features across the Fanatics Core stack. You will balance strategic direction with hands-on coding, mentoring peers and shaping architecture to support a growing sports betting and gaming ecosystem.

You will collaborate with product, design, and other stakeholders to deliver robust services, improve observability, and ensure quality as the organization scales globally from New