Staff Software Engineer, Back End (Java/AWS/Kafka)

Overview 

As a Staff Software Engineer, Back End at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you will help us design, develop, implement, test, and maintain scalable, high quality, low latency systems that help us deliver the best experience possible to our customers.  You will serve as lead for our Customer Accounts and Transaction (CAT) Login & Eligibility team. This role reports to our Sr. Software Development Manager and is responsible for helping define our identity, authentication and authorization strategy. The role will work closely with Product Management and other members of the  engineering organization helping them build secure APIs that enable a frictionless login experience for our customers. This engineer will have the opportunity to lead designing a scalable, secure architecture with multi factor authentication within an ambiguous regulatory environment and focus on setting clear direction and mentorship for the team.  

We are one team; we employ the principles of data-driven development, operational excellence, process calibration, and efficiency to deliver a stable, extensible platform at scale.  Through fundamentals and excellence in object-oriented design, coding patterns, modern open-source frameworks, and 3rd party platform integrations, we can achieve our goals to rapidly deliver and innovate in this exciting new market.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team or teams that develops, tests, documents, and deploys high quality software into production, leading the delivery of solutions that are extensible and scalable
• Clarify requirements and assists 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, find a path forward in difficult situations
• Mitigate immediate risk, identify and resolve root causes 
• Remove bottlenecks and makes technical and design approach trade-off decisions short term vs long-term
• Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches, driving best practices and improving the speed of delivery
• Lead code reviews to provide constructive direction
• Proactively simplifies code and resolves team architecture deficiencies
• Impact software architecture, dependencies, performance, and business value
• Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation
• Advise technology leaders, our product team, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
• Mentor and coach other engineers and actively work to reduce onboarding burden of future team members
• Influence your team's adherence to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy
• Develop a solid understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
• Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems
• Demonstrated fluency in Java and the Spring Boot framework
• You understand a broad range of design approaches
• You are able to triage and debug system-wide production issues
• Demonstrated experience mentoring other engineers
• 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
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• You have an agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly
• Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
• Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment

Preferred Qualifications