Fanatics

The Role

As a Backend Engineer at Fanatics, you'll design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-quality systems to deliver exceptional customer experiences. We own the Fanatics App, the brand-forward application of Fanatics that encompasses elements of all of our different brands and businesses. The Fanatics App brings together Free to Play sports games, live events, ecommerce, and new product experiences to deliver a new Sports platform. Fundamentally, we are one team in everything we do from the user experience to coding and architecture. In order to deliver on our Customer Promise, we use best in class technologies; thus allowing platforms to be as up to date as possible so that we can rapidly deliver and innovate in this exciting new market.

What You’ll Do:

• 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

What We’re Looking For:

• 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 , and 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, with a track record of modeling strong processes within a team, and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments for shared success.
• Strong communication skills, capable of conveying technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including engineers, your manager, 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.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• 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/2nd 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

The salary range for this position is $125,280 to $181,250, which represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training.

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.