Staff Engineer – Backend, Java

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production.

• Cultivate a comprehensive understanding of the industry, product, and roadmap to guide team strategy and organizational direction.

• Oversee the end-to-end technical execution of intricate features and systems from ideation and architecture through to deployment and refinement.

• Establish and uphold engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices.

• Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders on technical decisions that align with business objectives and scalability.

• Manage incident resolution during the on-call rotation, diagnosing and addressing critical software issues.

• Identify and eliminate roadblocks while working together across teams on complex projects.

• Conduct and enhance code reviews.

• Facilitate team planning and design discussions, optimizing design patterns.

• Enhance software quality, testability, operational metrics, and documentation.

• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels.

• Occasionally travel to offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in building highly scalable, performant, and adaptable backend distributed systems.

• Proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java is advantageous.

• Proven ability to promote backend development best practices and mentor others in coding and architectural strategies.

• Familiarity with observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems.

• Expertise in Agile software delivery and process enhancements across teams.

• Capable of collaborating cross-functionally within diverse teams in large enterprise environments.

• Excellent communication skills for articulating complex technical concepts to engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders.

• Team-oriented mindset.

• Ability to excel in a high-growth environment with shifting priorities.

• Preferred: experience in sports, gaming, and content delivery.

• Preferred: knowledge of Kotlin, Java, and/or Go.

• Preferred: experience with Kafka or Amazon SQS and event-driven architectures.

• Preferred: familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.

• Preferred: capability to work in both legacy and greenfield codebases across various languages and environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus in addition to base salary.

• Occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

• Full-time employment benefits (details provided at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/).