Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Role Overview:

As a Senior Software Engineer Full Stack at Fanatics, you will lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance systems that power critical commerce and marketing capabilities. Your role will primarily focus on backend aspects such as API design, distributed systems, data integrations, and cloud-native services, while also contributing to frontend experiences using React. Your work will directly impact the fan experience by delivering reliable, performant, and maintainable solutions across the stack.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and delivery of backend-driven, full-stack features for critical commerce and marketing workflows.
• Take ownership of services from architecture to production to ongoing optimization.
• Ensure systems scale reliably during high-traffic events and peak fan engagement moments.
• Design distributed systems and APIs considering tradeoffs across latency, consistency, cost, and resiliency.
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and scaling limits to prevent customer impact.
• Build observability into systems through metrics, tracing, and logging to support operational excellence.
• Lead technical design reviews and influence architectural decisions beyond your immediate squad.
• Raise engineering standards regarding testing, code quality, documentation, and system reliability.
• Strengthen CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices to improve engineering velocity.
• Mentor engineers through design discussions and code reviews to elevate the team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and high standards within the team.

Qualifications Required:

• 7+ years of experience building and operating production-grade software systems.
• Deep expertise in Go or Java with a strong understanding of concurrency, performance tuning, and system design.
• Proven experience in designing distributed systems and scalable APIs in high-traffic environments.
• Strong fundamentals in relational and/or NoSQL databases, including schema design and query optimization.
• Hands-on experience building cloud-native systems in AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, etc.).
• Practical experience contributing to React-based frontend applications.
• Solid understanding of API contracts, state management, and frontend performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs and backend scalability patterns.
• Track record of independently leading medium-to-large technical initiatives.
• Strong communication skills and experience working cross-functionally in Agile environments.

Additional Company Details:

Join a team at Fanatics where you're surrounded by top-tier talent, driven by a shared passion to relentlessly enhance the fan experience. The company culture focuses on collaboration, support, and continuous development, empowering individuals to shape a culture that celebrates both individual and team successes. Role Overview:

As a Senior Software Engineer Full Stack at Fanatics, you will lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance systems that power critical commerce and marketing capabilities. Your role will primarily focus on backend aspects such as API design, distributed systems, data integrations, and cloud-native services, while also contributing to frontend experiences using React. Your work will directly impact the fan experience by delivering reliable, performant, and maintainable solutions across the stack.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and delivery of backend-driven, full-stack features for critical commerce and marketing workflows.
• Take ownership of services from architecture to production to ongoing optimization.
• Ensure systems scale reliably during high-traffic events and peak fan engagement moments.
• Design distributed systems and APIs considering tradeoffs across latency, consistency, cost, and resiliency.
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and scaling limits to prevent customer impact.
• Build observability into systems through metrics, tracing, and logging to support operational excellence.
• Lead technical design reviews and influence architectural decisions beyond your immediate squad.
• Raise engineering standards regarding testing, code quality, documentation, and system reliability.
• Strengthen CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices to improve engineering velocity.
• Mentor engineers through design discussions and code reviews to elevate the team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and high standards within the team.

Qualifications Required:

• 7+ years of experience building and operating production-grade software systems.
• Deep expertise in Go or Java with a strong understanding of concurrency, performance tuning, and system design.
• Proven experience in designing distributed systems and scalable APIs in high-traffic environments.
• Strong fundamentals in relational and/or NoSQL databases, including schema design and query optimization.
• Hands-on experience building cloud-native syst