2 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive the development, testing, documentation, and deployment of scalable production software.
- Lead the end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems, including architecture, deployment, and refinement.
- Define engineering principles, guidelines, best practices, and architectural patterns.
- Partner with product, design, and other stakeholders on high-impact technical decisions.
- Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation.
- Conduct code reviews, improve software quality and testability, and enhance operational metrics and documentation.
- Steer planning and design discussions and remove roadblocks across teams.
- Mentor and coach engineers at all levels.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant, and evolvable backend distributed systems.
- Proficiency in backend development with Spring, Kotlin, and/or Java is preferred or beneficial.
- Demonstrated ability to establish backend development best practices and mentor engineers on coding and architecture.
- Knowledge of observability practices including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems.
- Experience driving process improvements and collaborating across diverse teams in large enterprise environments.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred: sports industry, gaming, or content delivery experience.
- Preferred: strong experience with Kotlin, Java, and/or Go.
- Preferred: experience with Kafka or Amazon SQS and event-driven architectures.
- Preferred: experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, cloud-native technologies, and infrastructure as code.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement.
- Full-time employment with benefits information provided through Fanatics’ benefits site.
- Salary range varies by country and state-based geographical compensation zone.
- Occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.
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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.