Hiring: Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems, Fanatics Markets Company: Fanatics Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:54:14 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, AWS, Event-Driven, Helm, Java, Kafka, Kotlin, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Protobuf, Pub/Sub, REST, Redis, Server-Sent Events, Spring Boot, Terraform, WebSocket, gRPC About the job Experience: •5+ years of software engineering experience with a primary focus on distributed systems and high-concurrency production environments. Required Skills: •You'll work alongside some of the most experienced distributed systems engineers in the industry, owning meaningful technical decisions and directly shaping how the platform scales over the next several years. If you thrive at the intersection of high-throughput systems, low-latency design, and technical leadership — this is your seat •Design, build, and scale distributed systems using Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot, architecting for the traffic spikes and concurrency demands of a live real-money trading platform. •Own the development and optimization of high-throughput event pipelines using Kafka, including partition strategy, consumer group design, and exactly-once processing guarantees. •Build and tune low-latency data layers across Postgres, Redis, and Redis PubSub — ensuring data integrity, cache coherence, and sub-millisecond read paths under peak load. •Implement and enforce resilience patterns across services — backpressure handling, circuit breaking, idempotent retry logic, and graceful degradation under failure conditions. •Contribute to real-time user-facing systems, solving the fan-out problem for live market updates across tens of thousands of concurrent sessions. •Partner with product and engineering leadership to align technical execution with business priorities — contributing to build vs. buy decisions and long-term platform strategy. •Set and uphold engineering standards for observability, schema evolution, testing practices, and deployment patterns across the team — through code reviews, RFCs, and technical documentation. Qualifications: •Expert-level proficiency in Java or Kotlin and Spring Boot, with a strong command of modern API design — REST, gRPC, and Protobuf. •Deep hands-on experience with Kafka (or Redpanda/Pub Sub) — including internal mechanics, partition strategies, consumer group rebalancing, and delivery guarantees. •Proven ability to diagnose and resolve bottlenecks in asynchronous messaging systems and implement patterns like idempotency, distributed caching, and exactly-once processing. •Applied hands-on capability in Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS. •Strong instincts for production reliability — you've been on-call, triaged distributed system failures under pressure, and shipped durable fixes. •Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams and guide engineers through complex architectural decisions without direct authority. •Track record of defining success metrics upfront — SLAs, latency budgets, throughput targets — and holding systems accountable to them in production. •Operational familiarity with financial platforms, real-time trading systems, or prediction markets. •For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ Compensation: •$152,000 - $200,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!