Principal Software Engineer - Golang

As a Principal Software Engineer at Fanatics, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining software. The Principal Engineer will be an expert technologist with experience in highly scalable, highly available software. Our team works on Fanatics ID which is our Identity Provider. We aim to make it as easy as possible for our users to log in to any Fanatics property and have their profile accessible to streamline their experiences. We want our users to trust that we will secure their information and protect them against malicious actors. This role will be crucial in helping define, deliver, and operate our authentication services.

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!

Responsibilities

1. Your work is focused on organizational architecture and a wide array of product solutions.
2. You may lead strategically important projects involving multiple teams to deliver solutions that are exemplary in terms of robustness, stability, scalability, cost effectiveness.
3. Influence extends to all verticals within the domain and collaborates across verticals to drive key technology decisions and cohesive strategy.
4. Quickly identify when to troubleshoot to find a path forward in difficult situations.
5. Be a technology leader within your domain and mentor leadership within each vertical.
6. Remove bottlenecks and make technical and design approach trade-off decisions: opportunity vs. architectural.
7. Lead design decisions around systems architecture and/or product solutions, driving best practices and improving the speed of delivery.
8. Make technology decisions that drive core business value through excellence in the platform.
9. May lead code reviews to provide constructive direction.
10. Proactively simplify code and resolve team architecture deficiencies.
11. Define and implement best practices in operational excellence and mitigation strategy organizationally.
12. Advise technology leaders, our product team, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products.
13. Mentor and act as a role model to other engineers within the department.
14. May engage externally to represent the company through tech talks, white papers, or community projects.
15. Engage external commercial partners to build key relationships and opportunities.
16. Develop expert-level understanding of our industry, product, feature set, and roadmap.
17. Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development.
18. Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

Required Qualifications

1. 10+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
2. You have mastery of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different teams.
3. Demonstrated fluency in Golang.
4. Comfort with multiple languages (Javascript/TypeScript preferred).
5. Experience with HTML, CSS.
6. Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS preferred).
7. Experience in Infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
8. Experience in Databases/data modeling.
9. Must have knowledge of container platforms like Docker.
10. Experience with Git or a similar distributed version control system.
11. Ability to design and build API specs.
12. Able to work in a collaborative environment to support rapid development and delivery of results.
13. Demonstrated experience mentoring other engineers.
14. Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders).
15. Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology.
16. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
17. You have an agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
18. Thrives in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly.
19. Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better.
20. Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience working in a start-up environment.
2. 5+ years of experience designing robust, stable, scalable, cost-effective platforms.

If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!

The expected salary range for this role is based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is eligible for the Fanatics annual bonus program and an equity award. *Salary range is listed in USD; ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics. *Salary Range: $192,000 to $378,000 (Salary range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed).