Software Engineer III (Backend, Java)

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.)