Staff Engineer – Client Services

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the planning, design, and technical development of significant product features from their initial stages through to deployment.

• Establish and enhance best practices for code quality, system architecture, testing, reliability, and security.

• Perform technical design and code evaluations.

• Mentor and empower engineers across various teams.

• Manage the complete delivery of multi-team projects involving engineering, product, and design.

• Formulate testing strategies for intricate client-side features and systems.

• Steer practices related to observability, reliability, resilience, and maintainability.

• Enhance incident-response protocols and address production incidents.

• Create, test, document, and deploy software for production environments.

• Collaborate with product, design, and internal stakeholders on technological decisions.

• Engage in an on-call rotation and resolve application issues.

• Address project obstacles as they arise.

• Cultivate a thorough understanding of the industry, product, feature set, and roadmap.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in designing and constructing highly scalable backend services.

• Proficiency in Kotlin as the main development language, or extensive knowledge of Java with a strong desire to transition to Kotlin.

• Demonstrated experience with contemporary backend frameworks such as Spring Boot or equivalent.

• Familiarity with Coroutines and Dependency Injection.

• Capability to convey complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Understanding of Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology.

• Ability to collaborate across functions within an enterprise environment.

• Bachelor's degree, professional certification, or a combination of education and experience.

• Preferred: experience with large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures.

• Preferred: exposure to AWS or GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.

• Preferred: knowledge of functional programming and Apache Pekko or Akka.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus structure.

• Comprehensive full-time employment benefits (see https://benefitsatfanatics.com/).

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