2 hours ago
Base Salary
$170k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead planning, design, technical development, testing, documentation, and deployment of major product features.
- Set technical direction and drive code quality, system design, testing, reliability, security, and engineering best practices across multiple client-facing teams.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-team projects while coordinating with engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders.
- Mentor and empower engineers and promote technical ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Define testing strategies for complex client-side features and guide teams on observability, resilience, maintainability, and operational practices.
- Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot application issues, respond to production incidents, and improve incident-response processes.
- Represent team plans, technical decisions, and project updates in cross-functional planning and review forums.
- Occasionally travel to Fanatics offices, conferences, events, meetings, or team-building activities.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience designing and building highly scalable backend services.
- Expertise with Kotlin or deep Java knowledge with a strong willingness to transition primarily to Kotlin.
- Experience with Spring Boot or similar modern backend frameworks, coroutines, and dependency injection.
- Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and communicating complex technical subjects to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree, professional certification, or a combination of education and experience.
- Preferred experience with large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, AWS or GCP, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, functional programming, and Apache Pekko or Akka.
- Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-growing enterprise environment with changing priorities.
Benefits
- Remote role with occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations.
- Full-time, non-seasonal hires may participate in onsite interview or onboarding experiences, including a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City; specific requirements depend on role and location.
- Benefits information is provided at benefitsatfanatics.com.
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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.