Fanatics · 1 day ago
Staff Android Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $237K/yr
7+ years expFanatics is a leading company focused on delivering exceptional customer experiences through innovative technology. The Staff Android Software Engineer will design, develop, and maintain scalable systems while leading the Loyalty SDK team to enhance customer loyalty experiences across various platforms.
eSportsManufacturingRetailSporting GoodsSports
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Experience with Jetpack Compose in production
Experience developing and maintaining production SDKs for mobile platforms
Experience working in a start-up or hyper-growth environment
Familiarity with analytics, feature flags, A/B testing frameworks, and release experimentation
Experience with observability and performance tooling (Crashlytics, Datadog, Android Profiler)
Open-source contributions or published libraries in the Kotlin/KMP ecosystem
Experience with iOS or other platform development is a strong plus for cross-platform strategy
Benefits
Home office setup stipend
Company
Fanatics
Fanatics is a sports merchandise retailer that manufactures fan gear and jerseys across retail channels. It is a sub-organization of Kynetic.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$4.9BKey Investors
Clearlake Capital GroupNational Football LeagueAlameda Research
2022-12-06Private Equity· $700M
2022-03-02Private Equity· $1.5B
2022-01-01Series Unknown· $10M
Leadership Team
J
Joseph Bozich
Advisor to Chief Executive Officer
Michael Mahan
CEO
Recent News
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