Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform that ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for its hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming. The Fanatics App brings together Free to Play sports games, live events, ecommerce, and new product experiences to deliver a new Sports platform. The company is looking for a Backend Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-quality systems to deliver exceptional customer experiences on this platform.
Requirements
- building backend features as part of a scrum team; 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
- 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.
