Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform, and they are seeking a Software Engineer III (Backend, Java) to join their emerging team. The role involves designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining software for a distributed, event-driven platform that powers player performance contests.
Responsibilities:
- As a microservices developer, you are required to build software systems that have well-defined interfaces. The selected candidate will need to write modular, reusable code. The candidate will be responsible for delivering high-quality results on large enterprise projects
- Develop, test, document, and deploy high-quality software into production
- Build features and tools that you and your team use
- Clarify requirements and assist with coding/story estimates
- Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues
- Quickly identify when to troubleshoot or escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks
- Mitigate immediate risk, identify and resolve root causes
- Make technical and design approach trade-off decisions
- Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches, driving best practices, and improving the speed of delivery
- Impact software quality, customer experience, and maintainability of product features by helping to automate testing and manual operational excellence tasks
- Work closely with our product team and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
- Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Requirements:
- 4+ years of industry experience
- 3+ years of experience in Java/Spring Boot and Kotlin
- 2+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Design and develop Microservices systems with Java, Spring Boot
- Able to triage and debug system-wide production issues
- Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders)
- Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
- Thrive in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly, and decisions are made quickly
- Experience with AWS or other cloud computing platforms
- Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational DB experience (e.g., MySQL, Oracle, etc.)