9 hours ago
Base Salary
$121k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, document, and deploy high-quality backend software into production.
- Build scalable features and internal tools for Fanatics’ shared platform capabilities.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, team planning, and engineering strategy development.
- Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshoot software issues when needed.
- Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, documentation, and software quality.
- Collaborate with product teams and internal stakeholders on technology decisions.
- Mentor and onboard junior engineers and interns.
- Travel occasionally to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building highly scalable, performant, and evolvable backend distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to drive backend development best practices and mentor others in coding and architecture.
- Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems.
- Experience driving process improvements and collaborating cross-functionally in large enterprise environments.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred experience in the sports industry, gaming, or content delivery.
- Strong experience with Kotlin, Java, and/or Go.
- Experience with Kafka or Amazon SQS and event-driven architectures.
- Comfort working with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, cloud-native systems, and infrastructure as code.
- Ability to work across legacy and greenfield codebases in different languages and environments.
Benefits
- Remote position.
- Full-time employment with bonus eligibility stated in the compensation information.
- Occasional travel to offices and other locations may be required.
- Benefits information is available through Fanatics’ benefits website.
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About Fanatics
Fanatics is a New York–based digital sports platform that sells licensed team merchandise, trading cards, and operates a growing online sportsbook for fans. Its businesses span e-commerce for leagues and teams, manufacturing and distributing collectibles (including the Topps trading card brand), and betting and iGaming. The privately held company operates globally and powers official online stores and in-venue retail for major professional and college sports organizations.