Backend Software Engineer I

About this role

Job Description
The Role
The Fanatics Identity team builds and operates the authentication and single sign-on (SSO) platform that powers every Fanatics product experience. Our systems handle millions of logins, registrations, MFA challenges, and account updates—making our work foundational to the Fanatics ecosystem. Reliability, scalability, and security are at the core of everything we do.


We’re looking for a
Software Engineer I
who is eager to learn, collaborate, and contribute to a high-impact engineering team focused on secure and seamless customer identity experiences.


Our Tech Stack:
Go (Golang), React, AWS, OAuth2/OIDC, Kubernetes, and other modern technologies.


What You'll Do

• Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production
• Build small features and tools that you and your team use
• Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge
• Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches
• Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation
• Help your team define and adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy
• Develop a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap
• Work closely with our product team and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products
• Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

What We’re Looking For

- 1+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Understanding of web technologies, REST APIs, and basic security principles.
- Experience with backend programming in Go or willingness to learn quickly.
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