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[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (FES)

🌍 Remote · United States 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics is building a global digital sports platform spanning commerce, collectibles, and betting and gaming. The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and operate full-stack platforms and services powering the Fan Ecosystem, with a backend focus on high-throughput Go services and APIs while contributing to TypeScript/React front ends. The role also provides technical leadership, mentorship, architecture guidance, and operational ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, document, and operate high-quality, production-grade software with a focus on Go services and APIs
  • Own the technical design of medium-to-large features and systems: define the approach, weigh trade-offs, document decisions, and drive them to completion
  • Break down ambiguous problems into well-scoped, deliverable work for yourself and other engineers on the team
  • Lead and participate in design and architecture reviews; provide clear, constructive feedback that improves both the design and the designer
  • Set the standard in code reviews — for correctness, readability, testability, and operational safety
  • Mentor and grow engineers on the team; onboard new hires and act as a technical point of contact for your systems
  • Participate in and improve the on-call rotation: instrument your services, drive incident response, and lead blameless postmortems that result in real fixes
  • Improve reliability, performance, and cost of the systems you own; define and act on SLOs and operational excellence metrics
  • Identify and pay down technical debt, and make the case for the investments worth making
  • Partner closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to shape the roadmap and make technology decisions that grow the business
  • Influence and help define the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy — then hold the team to them
  • Develop deep understanding of our industry, product, feature set, and roadmap, and use it to make better technical decisions

Skills

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems
  • Strong, demonstrated proficiency in Go (Golang) — required. You have built and shipped production services in Go and can speak to concurrency patterns, error handling, testing, profiling, and performance tuning in the language
  • Proven experience designing, building, and scaling backend services and APIs (REST and/or gRPC) in a distributed, microservices environment
  • Demonstrated proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript, and experience with React or another modern front-end framework
  • Solid grounding in data stores and messaging: relational and/or NoSQL databases, caching, and event streaming (e.g. Kafka, SQS/SNS)
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containers, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code
  • Strong operational instincts: observability, monitoring, alerting, debugging production issues under pressure
  • Track record of leading projects with multiple contributors and delivering them on time without sacrificing quality
  • Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
  • Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment
  • Experience building or integrating with identity and access management systems — authentication, authorization, SSO, and account lifecycle
  • Hands-on familiarity with identity standards and protocols: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT, MFA, session and token lifecycle management
  • Experience with identity providers and CIAM platforms (e.g. Okta, Auth0, ForgeRock, AWS Cognito, Ping) or with building an in-house identity platform
  • Experience with account security, fraud prevention, PII handling, or regulatory/compliance-driven engineering (KYC, GDPR, CCPA)
  • Experience designing systems that serve high-traffic, consumer-facing products with spiky, event-driven load
  • Experience with platform or shared-services work where your consumers are other engineering teams
  • Experience working in a start-up environment
  • Experience in sports, commerce, media, or another consumer-scale domain

Company Overview

  • Fanatics is a global sports platform reimagining the fan experience across gear, trading cards, sports betting, content, events, and more. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in New York, New York, 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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