Staff Backend Engineer - Platform Services & Events

Fanatics Collectibles; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Collectibles is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to design and build core platform services for the Backend Platform team. You will work with Client Platform, QA, and infrastructure to define architecture for real-time activity, money movement, and identity at scale.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, define API and event contracts, and drive reliability, security, and privacy by design. The role emphasizes mentoring, design reviews, and practical use of AI-assisted tooling to boost

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend experience in high-traffic systems.
• Deep expertise in Java, Go, or Python.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming systems.
• Hands-on AWS and security/privacy focus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build core platform services for the Backend Platform team.
• Own end-to-end initiatives from concept to production rollout.
• Define clean, versioned API and event contracts with client engineers and partner teams.
• Partner with DevOps/SRE on CI/CD, observability, and cost reduction.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Event-driven design

REST/GRPC

Java/Go/Python

AWS

Security & privacy

Team collaboration

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Fanatics Collectibles is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to design and build core platform services for the Backend Platform team. You will work with Client Platform, QA, and infrastructure to define architecture for real-time activity, money movement, and identity at scale.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, define API and event contracts, and drive reliability, security, and privacy by design. The role emphasizes mentoring, design reviews, and practical use of AI-assisted tooling to boost