Base Salary
$152k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale distributed systems using Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot for a high-concurrency real-money trading platform.
- Develop and optimize Kafka-based event pipelines, including partition strategies, consumer groups, and exactly-once processing.
- Build and tune low-latency data layers using Postgres, Redis, and Redis PubSub.
- Implement resilience patterns such as backpressure handling, circuit breaking, idempotent retries, and graceful degradation.
- Develop real-time user-facing systems that distribute live market updates to tens of thousands of concurrent sessions.
- Partner with product and engineering leadership on technical execution, build-versus-buy decisions, and long-term platform strategy.
- Set engineering standards for observability, schema evolution, testing, and deployment through code reviews, RFCs, and technical documentation.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, design reviews, and direct feedback.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience focused primarily on distributed systems and high-concurrency production environments.
- Expert-level proficiency in Java or Kotlin and Spring Boot, with strong knowledge of modern API design, gRPC, and Protobuf.
- Deep hands-on Kafka experience, or experience with Redpanda or Pub/Sub, including partitioning, consumer group rebalancing, and delivery guarantees.
- Experience diagnosing asynchronous messaging bottlenecks and implementing idempotency, distributed caching, and exactly-once processing.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and AWS cloud-native infrastructure.
- Production reliability experience, including on-call work, incident triage, and shipping durable fixes.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams and guide engineers through complex architectural decisions without direct authority.
- Experience defining and managing production success metrics such as SLAs, latency budgets, and throughput targets.
- Preferred: experience with WebSocket fan-out, server-sent events, or large-scale pub/sub.
- Preferred: familiarity with financial platforms, real-time trading systems, or prediction markets.
- Preferred: experience in a high-growth startup environment with broad ownership.
Benefits
- Full-time employment with benefits information provided through Fanatics’ benefits portal.
- Remote role, with potential in-person interviews or onboarding components depending on role and location.
- Full-time, non-seasonal hires may participate in Launching into Better: LIVE, a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City; travel and participation requirements are confirmed by the recruiter.
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H1B sponsorship
Sponsorship for this role is unconfirmed.
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Job fields receiving H1B certifications
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About Fanatics
Fanatics is committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience. As a leading global sports platform, Fanatics allows fans to buy, bet, and collect while engaging with sports in deeper, more immersive ways. Fanatics is redefining how fans connect with their favorite teams and players. Through its businesses—Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, Fanatics Betting & Gaming, Fanatics Events, Fanatics Markets, and Fanatics Studios—the company has built a powerful, integrated ecosystem. By bringing together licensed fan gear, physical and digital trading cards, live events, and more, Fanatics delivers personalized experiences to over 100 million fans worldwide. Fanatics currently holds partnerships with over 900 sports properties, including professional and college teams, leagues, players’ associations, and retail partners. Fanatics also partners with over 5,000 athletes and celebrities, including 250 exclusive partnerships, and has over 2,000 retail locations. Beyond these partnerships, Fanatics has its own powerhouse team of more than 22,000 global employees.