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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Backend Engineer - **Company:** Fanatics Inc - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $171,760.0 - $215,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Android Software Development, Apple IOS, Software Quality, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Data Stores, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, OAuth, Performance Tuning, Prometheus, Message Oriented Middleware, Search Technologies, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Tokenization, Datadog, Grafana, Backend, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Stream Processing, Data Pipelines, Dynatrace, Serverless Computing, OpenSearch, Docker, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** October 31, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/staff-backend-engineer-ny--786e5659-40c1-4942-9f06-7956241e45fc ## About the Role Conferences, Gaming, Retail, Sports, Sportsbook, Team Player, Android, Quality Assurance, iOS, Service Delivery, * 8+ years building backend services in high-traffic, distributed environments, with a record of owning systems at Staff scope. * Deep expertise in at least one major backend language (Java, Go, Python, or similar) and its ecosystem. * Strong experience designing event-driven and streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS/SNS, or equivalent), including partitioning, ordering, delivery guarantees, idempotency, and schema evolution. * Solid grounding in microservices, REST/gRPC (GraphQL a plus), and both relational and NoSQL data stores. Experience with search technologies such as Elasticsearch or OpenSearch is a plus. * Hands-on experience building and operating services on AWS, including serverless and managed services (e.g., Lambda, SQS/SNS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3). * Experience with identity and account concerns (OAuth, account linking, authentication/authorization) and with privacy and compliance engineering (GDPR, tokenization, encryption, consent) is a strong plus. * Experience in payments, wallet, checkout, or other transactional, money-adjacent systems is a plus, as is experience in marketplace or commerce domains. DevOps Mindset * Comfort owning services in production: containers (Docker) and an orchestration or serverless runtime (Kubernetes, ECS, or Lambda), plus infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK). * Familiarity with CI/CD (blue-green or canary deployment) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, distributed tracing). * Track record of performance tuning and reliability work, with measurable results in latency, scale, or cost. Collaboration & Communication * Proven ability to work across product, client (mobile and web), QA, and infrastructure teams, and to partner with external platforms or vendors where needed. * Strong written and verbal communication, with experience running design discussions and writing technical specs and 1-pagers that drive decisions. Leadership & Mentorship * Track record of leading zero-to-one initiatives and guiding other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and coaching. * Ability to influence technical direction and build consensus across teams in a fast-paced environment. ## Description As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Backend Platform team, you will design and build the foundational services behind that effort, working hand-in-hand with the Client Platform (iOS, Android, Web), QA, and infrastructure teams. You'll set technical direction for systems that carry real-time collector activity, money movement, and identity at scale., * Lead design and delivery of shared platform services over the next year, including a unified message bus, identity and user unification across Live and Collect, wallet, checkout, search, and discovery. * Design event-driven architectures and streaming pipelines that move us from fragmented, product-specific events to a single, reliable, well-governed event backbone, including phased migration of existing producers and consumers. * Own availability, scalability, security, and data privacy for core backend systems, including consent, PII handling, and compliance-by-design. Own Key Initiatives End to End * Spearhead zero-to-one initiatives from concept through production rollout, writing the 1-pager and technical design, breaking down work, and coordinating delivery across teams. * Define clean, versioned API and event contracts with client engineers and partner teams so Live, Collect, and Topps Digital can converge on shared capabilities. * Identify technical risk early, make sound build-vs-buy and sequencing tradeoffs, and communicate them clearly to engineering and product leadership. Operational Excellence * Partner with DevOps/SRE on CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and alerting. Define SLOs and drive down latency and cost on high-throughput services. * Build for safe change: gradual rollouts, feature flags, experimentation, and zero-downtime migrations. Raise the Engineering Bar * Establish standards for code quality, testing, performance, and documentation. Lead architecture and design reviews. * Mentor engineers, and help us hire and calibrate. We value candidates who have served as interview bar-raisers or loop leads. * Explore how AI-assisted tooling and agentic workflows can improve both our products and our engineering productivity, and help the team adopt them pragmatically.