Fanatics, Inc.

Staff Android Engineer

Fanatics, Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $180,000 - $237,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AndroidKotlin

About the role

  • Act as the Tech Lead for the Loyalty SDK: own technical roadmap, make architecture and design decisions, run design reviews, and coordinate delivery across product, backend, and other mobile teams.
  • Lead the design and evolution of our Loyalty SDK and shared mobile platform components, ensuring scalability, reusability, and operational excellence.
  • Build features and tools that you and your team use; drive improvements in developer experience for SDK consumers across the company.
  • Architect and deliver Kotlin Multiplatform solutions that maximize shared business logic and minimize platform divergence.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues and lead incident response and postmortems for platform-wide incidents.
  • Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks and remove impediments for your team and partner teams.
  • Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge; set and evangelize standards and best practices.
  • Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches and influencing roadmap decisions.
  • Impact software quality and customer experience of product features through design and technical leadership.
  • Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, observability, and team documentation.
  • Help your team define and adhere to principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy.
  • Develop a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap to make pragmatic, product-minded engineering decisions.
  • Work closely with product, design, backend, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products.
  • Help onboard, mentor, and grow junior engineers and interns.
  • Help recruit and interview mobile engineers; contribute to hiring bar and career development.
  • Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in mobile and cross-platform development.
  • Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

Requirements

  • Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) - demonstrated experience building, shipping, and maintaining KMP-based modules or apps in production.
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience focused on Android development.
  • Strong experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant mobile applications using Kotlin.
  • Deep knowledge of modern Android toolchain and Jetpack libraries, architecture patterns, Kotlin coroutines/Flow, and testing (unit, instrumentation, UI)
  • Experience designing and owning reusable libraries and cross-team platform components.
  • Proven ability to lead large-scale technical initiatives (modularization, CI/CD for mobile, performance optimizations, release engineering).
  • Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, product, marketing, operations, and non-technical stakeholders).
  • Familiar with Agile product delivery and SCRUM methodology.
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills; data-informed and pragmatic decision maker.
  • You have an agile mindset and thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve regularly.
  • Team-first mentality with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to continuously improve.
  • Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
Kotlin MultiplatformAndroid developmentKotlinJetpack librariesKotlin coroutinesFlowunit testinginstrumentation testingUI testingCI/CD
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationanalytical skillsproblem solvingagile mindsetteam collaborationmentoringdecision makingadaptabilitycross-functional teamwork