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[Remote] Software Engineer II - Backend

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2025-11-24

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. As a Backend Engineer, you'll design, develop, test, and maintain scalable systems to enhance customer experiences and contribute to the Fanatics App, which integrates various sports-related features and services.


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

Skills

  • 1+ years of experience 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
  • 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
  • Strong Experience in the sports industry, gaming and content delivery
  • 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

Company Overview

  • Fanatics is a sports merchandise retailer that manufactures fan gear and jerseys across retail channels. It is a sub-organization of Kynetic. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.fanaticsinc.com.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Fanatics has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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