Fanatics

Senior Engineering Manager, Distributed Systems

Fanatics

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • New York

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesPostgresReactRedisSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQLTerraform

About the role

  • Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with product and business stakeholders to align technical investments with company strategy, balancing long-term platform evolution with near-term priorities.
  • Guide teams in building distributed, event-driven, and fault-tolerant systems leveraging Kafka, Redis/Redis PubSub, and Postgres.
  • Provide architectural oversight and ensure best practices are applied when building services in Kotlin/Java with Spring Boot.
  • Drive organizational excellence in deployment, scalability, and operations through Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
  • Set and measure engineering goals (availability, performance, delivery cadence, quality) and hold teams accountable to outcomes.
  • Champion diversity, inclusion, and growth, ensuring that engineers thrive in a supportive and challenging environment.
  • Recruit, retain, and scale top engineering talent to meet the demands of growing systems and business needs.
  • Advocate for engineering across the organization, influencing leadership on technology strategy and distributed systems investment.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineering teams (managing managers a plus).
  • Proven success leading teams building and operating distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong track record of building engineering organizations that deliver business-critical systems with reliability and speed.
  • Familiarity with modern backend stacks, particularly Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience creating clarity and alignment in complex technical and organizational contexts.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Passion for building teams and cultures that deliver impactful results.
  • Experience leading multi-team programs or platform transformations.
  • Background in scaling organizations through high-growth phases.
  • Able to deal with ambiguity and strong self-motivation.