Software Engineer III - Backend (MarTech)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production
• Extend 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 adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy
• Develop an understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
• Work 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

• 2+ years of experience building scalable, performant and evolvable backend distributed systems
• Proficiency in Spring with Kotlin, Java, or Python is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to implement best practices in backend development
• Familiarity with methodologies like clean code, hexagonal/layered architectures, and/or domain driven design
• Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems
• Experience with Agile software delivery and collaborating cross-functionally within large enterprise environments
• Strong communication skills, capable of conveying technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences
• Team-first mentality and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done
• Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve 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 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/second order, medallion model etc.)
• Knowledge of messaging technologies such as Kafka or Amazon SQS, with an 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

Benefits & Perks

• Salary range of $125,280 to $181,250, based on location, experience, qualifications, and training
• Includes base pay and potential incentive compensation