Staff Engineer — Real-Time Backend & Tech Lead

fanaticsfbg; Stati Uniti; Remoto; USD 140.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Fanatics backend engineering team is seeking a staff-level engineer to provide technical leadership for scalable, client-facing services that power a real-time sports wagering app.

You will combine hands-on backend development with architecture, cross-team delivery, and on-call ownership, while mentoring others and elevating engineering practices across the organization. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and observability.

Competenze

• Seven or more years designing and building highly scalable backend services.
• Strong Kotlin expertise, or deep Java experience with willingness to move to Kotlin.
• Experience with Spring Boot, coroutines, and dependency injection.
• Ability to explain complex topics to engineering and non‑engineering audiences; agile delivery.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Mansioni

• Lead design and delivery of significant product features from planning through production.
• Set engineering practices for code quality, system design, testing, reliability, and security.
• Coordinate multi‑team work across engineering, product, and design; communicate plans.
• Define testing approaches and guide observability, resilience, and on‑call readiness.
• Develop, test, deploy software; contribute to on‑call response and incident resolution.
• Mentor engineers and support technical ownership amid changing priorities.

Conoscenze

Kotlin

Java

Spring Boot

Coroutines

Dependency Injection

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Strumenti

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

Descrizione del lavoro

Fanatics backend engineering team is seeking a staff-level engineer to provide technical leadership for scalable, client-facing services that power a real-time sports wagering app.

You will combine hands-on backend development with architecture, cross-team delivery, and on-call ownership, while mentoring others and elevating engineering practices across the organization. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and observability.