Senior Android Engineer - Live Auctions & Real-Time UI

Fanatics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking an experienced Android engineer to join the Instant Rips team within Fanatics Live, building live-break experiences for auctions, breaks, chat, and marketplace.

You will own features end‑to‑end, collaborate with product, design, backend, iOS, data and platform teams, and mentor engineers while upholding high standards for performance, reliability, and accessibility across a broad range of Android devices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping consumer-facing Android applications at scale.
• Kotlin — deep proficiency with the language and the modern Android ecosystem.
• Jetpack Compose — state-aware UI design, navigation, recomposition behavior, accessibility, and performance-conscious composition.
• Coroutines and Flow — structured concurrency, cancellation, error handling, reactive streams, and lifecycle-aware collection.
• Architecture — modular, maintainable applications with clear state management, dependency injection, and testable boundaries.
• API and real-time integration — experience consuming REST or GraphQL services and working with streaming, WebSocket, or subscription-based data patterns.
• Testing — strong unit, integration, and UI testing practices using modern Android testing tools and dependency fakes or mocks.
• Operational excellence — hands-on experience with profiling, crash and performance monitoring, analytics, experimentation, and complex production debugging.
• Build and release — Gradle and CI/CD experience with automated build, test, quality, and release pipelines.
• AI-assisted development — practical experience using AI tools to accelerate engineering work while validating correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Senior-level ownership — a track record of independently delivering complex features, communicating tradeoffs clearly, and mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship production Android features across the live-break experience: auctions, stream viewing, chat, marketplace, and collector tools.
• Own features end-to-end — client and API contracts, state and business logic, Compose UI, testing, release, and production health.
• Build real-time experiences that remain responsive and correct through reconnects, lifecycle changes, degraded networks, and peak-load events.
• Write meaningful test coverage across unit, integration, and UI layers, including deterministic tests for Coroutines, Flow, and failure paths.
• Improve application performance, stability, accessibility, security, and reliability across a broad range of Android devices and OS versions.
• Diagnose complex production issues using observability, analytics, experimentation, and customer feedback.
• Review pull requests with judgment: surface real defects, prioritize what matters, and coach on what to let go.
• Contribute to architectural decisions involving modularization, state management, dependency injection, networking, persistence, and failure handling.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, backend, iOS, Data, and platform teams to clarify tradeoffs and deliver cohesive customer experiences.
• Mentor engineers earlier in their careers and raise the quality bar across the team.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Coroutines & Flow

Android Foundations

Architecture

API & Real-time

Testing

Operational Excellence

Build & Release

AI-assisted Development

Senior Ownership

Job description

Fanatics is seeking an experienced Android engineer to join the Instant Rips team within Fanatics Live, building live-break experiences for auctions, breaks, chat, and marketplace.

You will own features end‑to‑end, collaborate with product, design, backend, iOS, data and platform teams, and mentor engineers while upholding high standards for performance, reliability, and accessibility across a broad range of Android devices.