Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Kotlin

About the role

As a Backend Engineer at Fanatics Core, you will design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-quality systems to deliver exceptional customer experiences. You will work on the Fanatics App, which integrates free-to-play games, live events, and e-commerce to provide a best-in-class sports platform. The role involves collaborating across teams to build features that delight millions of monthly active users.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production
• Build features and tools that you and your team use
• Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues
• Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge
• Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches
• Impact software quality and customer experience of product features
• Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation

Required skills

• Distributed systems
• Spring
• Kotlin
• Java
• Observability
• Agile
• Backend development

Nice to have

• Go
• Kafka
• Amazon SQS
• Event-driven architectures
• Cloud Native
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• Terraform

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant and evolvable backend distributed systems

About the Company

Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform that offers products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming. The company serves over 100 million global sports fans and maintains a network of approximately 900 sports properties.