Staff Engineer - Backend/Kotlin (REMOTE)

The role

As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will act as a technical leader driving the development, testing, and deployment of scalable software. You will lead technical execution for complex features and mentor engineers to foster a culture of excellence.

What you will do

• Drive the development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production
• Lead the end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems
• Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices
• Partner with product, design, and other stakeholders to make technical decisions
• Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation
• Identify and remove roadblocks
• Conduct and elevate code reviews
• Steer team planning and design discussions
• Champion improvements to software quality, testability, operational metrics, and team documentation
• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant and evolvable backend distributed systems
• Demonstrated ability to drive best practices in backend development and mentor others in effective coding and architectural strategies
• Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems
• Expertise in Agile software delivery
• Excellent communication skills
• Team-first mentality

Nice to have

• proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java
• Strong Experience in the sports industry, gaming and content delivery
• Highly effective with Kotlin, Java and/or Go
• Expertise in messaging technologies such as Kafka or Amazon SQS, with a solid understanding of event-driven architectures
• Comfortable working with Cloud Native and Infrastructure as Code, like Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform
• Ability to work in diverse codebases, both legacy and greenfield, in different languages and environments

Benefits

• full-time employment

About the company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company offers products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.