Senior Backend Engineer - MarTech

About the Role

Key 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
• Help your team define and adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy
• Develop a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
• Work closely with our product team and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
• Help to onboard and mentor junior engineers and interns
• Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant and evolvable backend distributed systems
• Proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to drive best practices in backend development and mentor others in effective coding and architectural strategies
• Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems
• Expertise in Agile software delivery, with experience modeling and driving process improvements across teams
• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences
• Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done
• Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly

Nice to Have

• Strong Experience in the sports industry, gaming, content delivery, and/or integrations engineering
• Highly effective with Python, Java and/or Go
• Familiarity and skill with Data Engineering frameworks like Airflow, airbyte dbt
• Proficient with fundamentals like directed acyclic graphs, SQL, data modeling, and data storage techniques and methodologies (lakes, warehouses, first order, 2nd order, medallion model etc.)
• 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

Qualifications

• Experience building highly scalable, performant backend systems
• Proficiency in Spring with Kotlin and/or Java
• Experience with Agile software delivery and process improvements

Benefits & Perks

• Salary range of $138,240 to $200,000, based on location, experience, qualifications, and training
• Includes base pay and potential short-term or long-term incentive compensation