Overview:
We are seeking a Mid-Level Server Engineer to join our platform team designing and implementing infrastructure supporting the Topps Digital Collectibles sports and entertainment products. This position will be dedicated to building a best-in-class, next generation collectible APIs and other data processing tools, while working on and maintaining existing products with the existing engineering team.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the development of our next generation of our mobile APIs.
- Provide technical support to other team members as needed across the Fanatics/Topps Collectibles division, including back-end engineers, front-end engineers, testers, product managers, project managers, contractors, and content producers.
- Develop a best-in-class microservice architecture utilizing synchronous and asynchronous technologies.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
- Communicate and work directly with Team Leads to understand their needs and transform those into a cohesive and unified product.
- Implementing unit and integration tests in a test-driven development mindset.
- Generate documentation about architecture, interactions and behaviors with REST APIs or any other mechanism to process data.
Essential Experience and Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in building server-side applications.
- Experience with Python 3.9 or higher.
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
- 2+ years experience working with AWS cloud.
- Proven experience in working on a small to medium size team of engineers, content managers, project managers, and QA.
- Understanding how to use GIT for source control management.
- Experience with optimizing high demand services using caching tools like Redis and DynamoDB.
Bonus if experienced in:
- Experience designing scaleable architectures servicing 1000s of users simultaneously.
- Working with ambiguous requests that require self guided research
- Microservice based APIs
- AWS services like S3, API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, and/or RDS
- Working with non-relational database technologies such as MongoDB, DynamoDB, and/or Redis
- Server-side engineering using Flask
- Designing APIs for mobile applications
- WebSockets
- Passion for collectibles, sports, entertainment, gaming, and the Topps / Fanatics brand.
- Experience working with distributed teams working fully remote in various time zones.
- Experience working with LARGE data (TB size datasets)
In NYC, the salary range for this position is $130,000- $160,000, which represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. In Los Angeles, the salary range for this position is $120,000- $150,000. The listed salary ranges are specific to NYC or Los Angeles and may not be applicable to other locations. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training.
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores.As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.
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