Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics builds a digital sports platform spanning commerce, collectibles, and betting. The Senior Staff Engineer will provide technical leadership for the Fanatics mobile app, shaping architecture and strategy while leading complex Android and Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
Responsibilities
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry, product, and roadmap, leveraging this knowledge to shape team strategy and influence the direction of the organization
- Lead the end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems, from ideation and architecture to deployment and refinement
- Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices
- Customer Focused, Android Platform expert driving decisions to best serve Android and the Mobile ecosystem for the Fanatics apps through Kotlin Multi-platform
- Partner closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to make high-impact technical decisions that align with both business goals and long-term scalability
- Work with iOS and Android leaders throughout the company to share best practices, code and entire features across multiple apps
- Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation, ensuring swift diagnosis and remediation of critical software issues
- Proactively identify and remove roadblocks, occasionally collaborating cross-team collaboration to maintain momentum on complex projects
- Conduct and elevate code reviews, sharing expertise to enhance code quality
- Steer team planning and design discussions, introducing innovative approaches to solve technical challenges and optimize design patterns
- Champion improvements to software quality, testability, operational metrics, and team documentation, setting a higher standard for the organization
- Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth across the team
- Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities
Skills
- 10+ years of experience building delightful, highly scalable, performant and beloved Android apps, excellence in Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform and other Android technologies
- Demonstrated ability to drive consensus and mentor others in effective coding and architectural strategies
- Systems-level functional knowledge, experience or understanding of Backend Client API, Platform Engineering, and Client-supporting systems in Marketing and Analytics
- Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in native apps
- Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders
- Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
- Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly
- Experience sharing code across multiple native and cross-platform apps, using native libraries or a cross-platform technology like Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform
- Experience with webviews and how to stitch together coherence app experiences across multiple technologies
- Experience in the sports industry, e-commerce, or gaming
- Ability to work in diverse codebases, both legacy and greenfield, in different languages and environments
Benefits
- Bonus
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