Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Kotlin (REMOTE)
Senior backend engineer on Fanatics Core, building the shared foundations (identity, payments, loyalty, wallet, data) that power the Fanatics App across sports betting, ecommerce, and collectibles. Day to day: design, build, and operate scalable Kotlin/Java Spring distributed systems with event-driven messaging, observability, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Compensation
- $121K–$200K / yr
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant and evolvable backend distributed systems
- Proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java is a plus
- Ability to drive best practices in backend development and mentor others (clean code, hexagonal/layered architectures, domain driven design, design patterns)
- Knowledge of observability practices: logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems
- Expertise in Agile software delivery and driving process improvements across teams in large enterprise environments
- Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences including engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders
- Team-first mentality and desire to strive for better
- Thrives in a high-growth environment with evolving priorities
- Open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building
Nice to have
- 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, with understanding of event-driven architectures
- 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
Full description
About Us
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.
Overview
As a Backend Engineer at Fanatics Core, you'll design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-quality systems to deliver exceptional customer experiences. We own the Fanatics App, the brand-forward application of Fanatics that encompasses elements of all of our different brands and businesses.
We own the Fanatics App, the mobile app at Fanatics that encompasses elements from all of our different brands and businesses. The Fanatics App brings together Free to Play games, live events, ecommerce, and new product experiences to deliver a best-in-class Sports platform. Fundamentally, we are one team in everything we do, from the user experience to coding and architecture. We aim to deliver on our Customer Promise by delighting our millions of monthly active users.
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production
- Build features and tools that you and your team use
- Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues
- Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks
- Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge
- Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches
- Impact software quality and customer experience of product features
- Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation
- Help your team define and adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy