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 concept to deployment.

• Establish and expand best practices regarding code quality, system architecture, and testing methodologies.

• Perform technical design assessments and code evaluations.

• Mentor and support engineers across various teams.

• Direct the comprehensive delivery of projects involving multiple teams across engineering, product, and design.

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

• Provide guidance on observability, reliability, resilience, and operational best practices.

• Enhance processes to handle high-pressure situations, changes in scope, and production incidents effectively.

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

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

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

• Participate in occasional conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proficiency in Kotlin as the primary programming language, or substantial expertise in Java with a strong desire to transition to and primarily develop in Kotlin.

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

• Familiarity with Coroutines and Dependency Injection.

• Capable of effectively communicating complex technical topics to diverse audiences.

• Knowledgeable about Agile software product delivery and SCRUM practices.

• Proven ability to work effectively in a cross-functional capacity within an enterprise setting.

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

• Preferred: experience with large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, functional programming, and Apache Pekko or Akka.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary along with a bonus.

• Comprehensive full-time employment benefits.

• Flexibility of remote work arrangements.

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

• Possibility of in-person interview or onboarding elements.

• Opportunity to participate in Better: LIVE, a multi-day cultural immersion experience in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires.