Fanatics is looking to hire a Backend Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-quality systems for the Fanatics App, which aims to be a new Sports platform integrating Free to Play sports games, live events, and ecommerce.
Requirements
- proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java is a plus.
- Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems.
- Highly effective with Kotlin, Java and/or Go
- Expertise in messaging technologies such as Kafka or Amazon SQS, with a solid understanding of event-driven architectures.
- Comfortable working with Cloud Native and Infrastructure as Code, like Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform
- Ability to work in diverse codebases, both legacy and greenfield, in different languages and environments
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
- 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
Other
- 1+ years of experience building backend features as part of a scrum team
- Experience in Agile software delivery, estimating story points, committing to work and collaborating among your team.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better.
- Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly.
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
