Staff Engineer – Client Services
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Staff Engineer leading scalable Kotlin backend services for Fanatics Betting & Gaming’s sportsbook app. Driving architecture, engineering excellence, testing, reliability, and multi-team delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Lead planning, design, and technical development of major product features from inception through deployment
- Define and scale best practices for code quality, system design, and testing
- Conduct technical design and code reviews
- Mentor and empower engineers across multiple teams
- Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-team projects across engineering, product, and design
- Define testing strategies for complex client-side features and systems
- Guide observability, reliability, resilience, and operational best practices
- Improve processes for high-pressure situations, scope changes, and production incidents
- Develop, test, document, and deploy production software
- Collaborate with product, design, and internal stakeholders on technology decisions
- Participate in an on-call rotation and troubleshoot application issues
- Attend occasional conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience designing and building highly scalable backend services
- Expertise with Kotlin as the primary development language, OR deep knowledge of Java with a strong willingness to transition to and develop primarily in Kotlin
- Proven experience with modern backend frameworks such as Spring Boot or similar
- Experience with Coroutines and Dependency Injection
- Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to varied audiences
- Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
- Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment
- A Bachelor’s degree, or professional certification, or a combination of education and experience
- Preferred: experience with large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, functional programming, and Apache Pekko or Akka
Benefits:
- Base salary plus bonus
- Full-time employment benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
- Potential in-person interview or onboarding components
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