Fanatics
Staff Engineer – Client Services (REMOTE)
New York, NY, United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
Jacksonville, Florida, United States - Experience
- 7+ years designing and building highly scalable backend services.
- Education
- A Bachelor’s degree, or professional certification, or a combination of education and experience
About the job
Leads technical direction and delivery of scalable client and backend services for the Fanatics Sportsbook app, while mentoring engineers and improving quality, reliability, and operational practices.
What you'll do
- Lead design and end-to-end delivery of major features and multi-team projects, coordinating with product, design, and engineering.
- Set technical standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and reliability; conduct design and code reviews.
- Mentor engineers and support production operations, including on-call incident response.
What they ask for
- 7+ years designing and building highly scalable backend services.
- Expertise in Kotlin, or deep Java knowledge with a strong willingness to transition to Kotlin.
- Experience with modern backend frameworks such as Spring Boot or similar, Coroutines, and Dependency Injection.
- Bachelor’s degree, professional certification, or a combination of education and experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, or Apache Pekko (or Akka).
Pay
$1 USD base salary
Tools
Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform, Java, Spring Boot, Coroutines, Dependency Injection, AWS, GCP
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