Staff Engineer, Backend/Kotlin - Sportsbook (REMOTE)

The role

You will lead the planning, design, and technical development of major product features for the Sportsbook Client team. You will drive technical excellence, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable solutions across mobile systems.

What you will do

• Lead the planning, design, and technical development of major product features.
• Own and drive technical excellence in code quality, system design, and testing.
• Conduct technical design and code reviews.
• Mentor and empower engineers across multiple teams.
• Help teams define and adhere to engineering strategy and best practices.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-team projects.
• Define and lead the testing strategy for complex client-side features.
• Guide teams in operational best practices for observability and reliability.
• Improve team processes for handling high-pressure situations or production incidents.
• Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing and building highly scalable backend services.
• Expertise with Kotlin as the primary development language, OR deep knowledge of Java with a strong willingness to transition to and develop primarily in Kotlin.
• Proven experience with modern backend frameworks such as Spring Boot or similar.
• Experience with Coroutines and Dependency Injection.
• Team-first mentality.
• Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences.
• Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology.
• Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly.
• Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment.
• A Bachelor’s degree, or professional certification, or a combination of education and experience

Nice to have

• Experience designing and building backend services using Spring Boot or similar Java frameworks
• Experience working in large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools
• Familiarity with functional programming paradigms and actor-based concurrency frameworks like Apache Pekko (or Akka)

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.