Fanatics
Staff Engineer - Backend/Kotlin (REMOTE)
$144K–$235K
New York, NY, United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 7+ years.
About the job
Leads the design, development, and operation of scalable backend systems and features powering the Fanatics App and shared platform capabilities.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems, from architecture through deployment and refinement.
- Set engineering standards and improve software quality, testing, observability, and documentation; mentor engineers.
- Partner across teams and lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant, and evolvable backend distributed systems.
- Ability to drive backend best practices and mentor others in coding and architectural strategies.
- Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems.
- Expertise in Agile software delivery and cross-functional collaboration in large enterprise environments.
Nice to have
- Experience in sports, gaming, or content delivery.
- Experience with Kotlin, Java, or Go; messaging technologies such as Kafka or Amazon SQS; and cloud-native infrastructure such as Kubernetes, Helm, or Terraform.
Pay
$144,000 — $235,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Spring, Kotlin, Java, Go, Kafka, Amazon SQS, Kubernetes, Terraform
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