Staff Backend Engineer
FanaticsLos Angeles, California, United States
Posted July 15, 2025
172000 - 258000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Fanatics is a global digital sports platform that connects passionate fans with licensed merchandise, collectibles, and betting services. With over 22,000 employees serving more than 100 million fans worldwide through e-commerce, retail, and in-venue locations, Fanatics offers a comprehensive ecosystem for buying, collecting, and betting on sports.
Job Description
Fanatics is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their cross-functional team, working closely with frontend and DevOps engineers to design, develop, and deploy scalable services for a new-generation collectibles platform. This role involves collaborating on APIs, building microservices, ensuring system stability, and mentoring other engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years building backend services in high-traffic, distributed environments.
- Deep knowledge of at least one major backend language (Java, Go, Python, Node.js) and its ecosystem.
- Solid understanding of microservices, REST/GraphQL, message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and relational/NoSQL databases.
- Experience in AWS/GCP.
- Hands-on with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI) and monitoring/logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Proven ability to work seamlessly with frontend, design, QA, and DevOps teams.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Track record of guiding and growing other engineers.
- Ability to influence technical direction.
