Engineering Manager, Client Platform (iOS/Android/Web)

Fanatics; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Client Platform Team across iOS, Android, and Web for the Live and Collect apps, focusing on people leadership and platform execution. You will partner with product, design, engineering, QA, SRE, and other stakeholders to improve release reliability, observability, developer productivity, and platform health.

The role combines hands-on technical engagement with strategic leadership and a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing and developing engineers.
• Experience leading client platform, frontend, mobile, or cross-platform teams across iOS, Android, and/or Web.
• Strong judgment around delivery, quality, architecture, performance, reliability, and tradeoffs.
• Experience improving release quality, observability, CI/CD health, or platform reliability through engineering systems and operational practices.
• Ability to lead through influence across multiple product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop engineers working across iOS, Android, and Web client platforms.
• Lead platform initiatives focused on developer productivity, release reliability, observability, shared tooling, and client platform health.
• Establish clear expectations, priorities, ownership boundaries, and success metrics for the Client Platform Team.
• Drive execution of platform initiatives that improve developer workflows, release safety, observability, and client quality.
• Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, SRE/Infrastructure, and other stakeholders on planning, sequencing, and execution.
• Partner with engineering leadership to prioritize platform reliability, developer productivity, observability, and modernization investments alongside product delivery commitments.
• Improve release-readiness processes, CI/CD health, PR validation quality, automated testing practices, and incident follow-through.
• Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, logs, and operational workflows that improve visibility into critical client experiences.
• Partner with client engineering teams on shared architectural patterns, framework adoption, dependency health, and platform consistency.
• Drive effective adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows, including development tooling, documentation, testing support, code review augmentation, and developer enablement best practices.
• Remain technically engaged in architecture discussions, operational reviews, development workflows, and engineering quality practices while empowering engineers to own implementation details.
• Support hiring, onboarding, team growth, and a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.

Skills

People leadership

Frontend/mobile/web leadership

Cross-platform engineering

Delivery & architecture judgment

CI/CD & observability

Influence & collaboration

AI-assisted workflows

Job description

Fanatics is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Client Platform Team across iOS, Android, and Web for the Live and Collect apps, focusing on people leadership and platform execution. You will partner with product, design, engineering, QA, SRE, and other stakeholders to improve release reliability, observability, developer productivity, and platform health.

The role combines hands-on technical engagement with strategic leadership and a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous