Fanaticsinc
Staff Engineer - Backend/Kotlin (REMOTE)
New York, NY, United States. Posted a month ago
The role
You will act as a technical leader driving the development, testing, and deployment of scalable software for the Fanatics App. You will lead technical execution, mentor engineers, and partner with stakeholders to align technical decisions with business goals.
What you will do
- Drive development, testing, documentation, and deployment of scalable software
- Lead end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems
- Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices
- Partner with product, design, and stakeholders on technical decisions
- Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation
- Identify and remove roadblocks through cross-team collaboration
- Conduct and elevate code reviews
- Steer team planning and design discussions
- Champion improvements to software quality, testability, and operational metrics
- 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 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
- 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
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.