Backend Engineer

About the Team

Fanatics Live is a community-driven livestream commerce platform where fans and collectors participate in creator-led live shopping experiences centered around trading cards, collectibles, memorabilia, and exclusive drops. The platform combines commerce, content, and community into a unified collector experience supporting millions of fans globally.

As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, Fanatics Live operates with the agility of a startup while leveraging Fanatics’ global reach, licensing partnerships, and technology platform. Engineers at Fanatics Live build highly interactive, real-time systems that power livestream commerce, marketplace transactions, creator tooling, and collector engagement experiences at scale.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to help build and scale the next generation of services powering Fanatics Live globally. This engineer will contribute to backend systems supporting livestream commerce, real-time purchasing experiences, payments, notifications, inventory orchestration, seller tooling, and platform reliability.

This role is ideal for an engineer who can independently deliver well-scoped technical solutions, collaborate across product and infrastructure teams, and contribute to scalable distributed systems in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs supporting Fanatics Live products and operations
• Develop reliable systems for real-time commerce, livestream interactions, order processing, inventory management, and event-driven workflows
• Contribute to system design discussions and technical planning across multiple engineering initiatives
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested production code following engineering best practices
• Partner closely with Product, Mobile, Web, Data, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to deliver customer-facing capabilities
• Optimize application performance, resiliency, observability, and scalability for global traffic patterns
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvements
• Contribute to continuous improvement of development workflows, deployment pipelines, and engineering standards
• Support technical documentation and knowledge sharing across the organization
• Mentor junior engineers through collaboration, code reviews, and technical guidance

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend systems
• Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Java, Elixir, or similar backend programming languages
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and distributed systems
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design and optimization
• Experience with cloud-native development and AWS services
• Familiarity with asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, and message queues
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling
• Understanding of secure software development practices
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting high-scale consumer-facing applications
• Experience with livestreaming, marketplace, e-commerce, or real-time systems
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Exposure to GraphQL, WebSockets, or real-time event platforms
• Passion for sports, collectibles, creator ecosystems, or fan communities

Code Writing Contribution

This role requires strong hands-on coding capability. Engineers at this level are expected to independently deliver production-quality backend services, contribute to system design and implementation, and support operational excellence through maintainable, scalable code aligned with role expectations.

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