Staff Engineer – Backend, Kotlin

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

📋 Description

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

• Gain insights into the industry, product, and roadmap to guide team strategy and organizational direction.

• Oversee the complete technical execution of intricate features and systems from ideation and architecture 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.

• Detect and eliminate project obstacles through collaboration across teams.

• Conduct and enhance code reviews.

• Facilitate team planning and design discussions.

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

• Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers at all levels.

• Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in building scalable, high-performance backend distributed systems.

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

• Ability to advocate for 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.

• Capacity to collaborate across different teams within large enterprise settings.

• Exceptional communication skills for articulating complex technical concepts to varied audiences.

• A team-first mentality and a commitment to continuous improvement.

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

• Preferred: experience in the sports industry, 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, Terraform; Cloud Native, and Infrastructure as Code.

• Preferred: ability to work with both legacy and greenfield codebases across various languages and environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Base salary and bonus.

• Full-time employment benefits.

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

• Benefits information available at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/.