Fanatics · 1 day ago
Staff Engineer - Backend Kotlin
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$144K/yr - $205K/yr
7+ years expFanatics is a leading company in the sports betting and gaming industry, and they are seeking a Staff Engineer for their Client Services team. In this role, you will lead the technical development of product features, drive engineering excellence, and mentor engineers to enhance the customer experience on the Fanatics Sportsbook app.
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Responsibilities
Lead the planning, design, and technical development of major product features, from inception through deployment, ensuring alignment with overall platform strategy
Own and drive technical excellence, including defining and scaling best practices in code quality, system design, and testing across the Client Services domain and peer teams
Conduct exceptionally thorough and constructive technical design and code reviews to maintain the highest bar for quality, reliability, and security
Mentor and empower engineers across multiple teams, fostering a culture of technical ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement
Help your team define and adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy and actively drive adoption across related client teams
Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-team projects, coordinating across engineering, product, and design. Effectively represent the team's plans, updates, and technical decisions in cross-functional planning and review forums
Define and lead the testing strategy for complex client-side features and systems, promoting a culture of quality and ensuring systems are testable by design
Guide teams in operational best practices, actively raising the bar for observability, reliability, and system resilience. Design, stress-test, and refine systems for maintainability
Improve the team's processes and response rhythms for handling high-pressure situations, scope changes, or production incidents, fostering an environment of composure and continuous learning
Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production
Develop a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
Work closely with our product team, design, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
Participate in an on-call rotation to address urgent issues outside business hours and contribute to app enhancements and operational efficiency (OE) by troubleshooting and resolving application-related problems
Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks
Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience designing and building highly scalable backend services
Expertise with Kotlin as the primary development language, OR deep knowledge of Java with a strong willingness to transition to and develop primarily in Kotlin
Proven experience with modern backend frameworks such as Spring Boot or similar
Experience with Coroutines and Dependency Injection
Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders)
Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly
Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment
A Bachelor's degree, or professional certification, or a combination of education and experience
Preferred
Experience designing and building backend services using Spring Boot or similar Java frameworks
Experience working in large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures
Exposure to cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools
Familiarity with functional programming paradigms and actor-based concurrency frameworks like Apache Pekko (or Akka)
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401K
Paid time off
GymPass
Pet Insurance
Family Care Benefits
And more.
Company
Fanatics
Fanatics is a sports merchandise retailer that manufactures fan gear and jerseys across retail channels. It is a sub-organization of Kynetic.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$4.9BKey Investors
Clearlake Capital GroupNational Football LeagueAlameda Research
2022-12-06Private Equity· $700M
2022-03-02Private Equity· $1.5B
2022-01-01Series Unknown· $10M
Leadership Team
J
Joseph Bozich
Advisor to Chief Executive Officer
Michael Mahan
CEO
Recent News
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