Senior Android Engineer, MLB App Feature Teams

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Benefits Package

Company 401K Contribution

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Free MLB Tickets & MLB.TV access

Discounts at MLBShop.com

Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)

Training & Development Programs

Tuition Reimbursement

Disability Benefits

Life Insurance & AD&D

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Major League Baseball seeks a Senior Android Engineer to join its MLB App Feature Teams, delivering end-to-end Android experiences for fans, including personalized feeds, real-time scores, notifications, widgets, and media experiences.

You will own architecture, testing, rollout, observability, and production reliability in a large consumer app, collaborating with product, design, iOS, backend, QA, and test engineering while using GenAI responsibly to accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building production Android apps.
• Strong Kotlin, Android SDK, Jetpack Compose, coroutines, and architecture.
• Experience in modular Android codebases with shared core modules.
• REST and GraphQL integration with solid error handling.
• Proven testing discipline across unit/integration/UI tests and CI.
• Experience diagnosing production issues via logs and telemetry.
• Familiarity with push notifications, widgets, and release management.
• Good Git workflow and written communication.
• Experience with GenAI tools to support delivery, with safe judgment.

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality Android features in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose across modules.
• Translate requirements and designs into production-ready UI with cross-platform consistency.
• Design and implement clean, maintainable feature architectures.
• Integrate REST and GraphQL APIs with robust networking and caching.
• Improve app performance, startup behavior, and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, iOS, Backend, QA, and Test Eng.
• Monitor rollouts and production behavior using observability tools.
• Own production issues from diagnosis to resolution and prevention.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Android SDK

Coroutines

Modular Android

REST/GraphQL

Testing (CI)

Observability

GenAI tools

Git & code reviews

Cross-functional collaboration

Debugging & profiling

Tools

Firebase

Datadog

GraphQL clients

CI/CD tooling

Job description

About the Role

Major League Baseball seeks a Senior Android Engineer to join its MLB App Feature Teams, building app experiences that bring fans closer to the game, including personalized feeds, real‑time scores and stats, notifications, widgets, advertising surfaces, and media experiences. The role owns Android feature delivery end to end, from technical design and implementation through testing, rollout, observability, and production reliability. The engineer will operate independently in a large consumer app, make sound architecture decisions, raise the quality bar for the team, and use modern developer tools, including generative AI, responsibly and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Build high-quality Android features in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose across app, media, and shared platform modules
• Translate product requirements and Figma designs into polished, accessible, production‑ready UI while maintaining cross‑platform consistency with iOS
• Design and implement clean, maintainable feature architecture that fits a modular Android codebase
• Integrate REST and GraphQL APIs with resilient networking, thoughtful state handling, caching where appropriate, and clear failure states
• Improve app performance, responsiveness, startup behaviour, crash‑free sessions, and overall reliability
• Partner with Product, Design, iOS, Backend, QA, and Test Engineering to clarify requirements, shape technical plans, and define test coverage early
• Monitor feature rollouts and production behaviour using Firebase, Datadog, crash reporting, analytics, and release health signals
• Own production issues from diagnosis through resolution, including root‑cause analysis and follow‑up prevention work
• Drive measurable improvements in build time, delivery throughput, code quality, and engineering efficiency
• Provide thoughtful PR reviews, mentor engineers, and help establish patterns that scale across feature teams
• Use GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar assistants to accelerate implementation, refactoring, test generation, debugging, and documentation while retaining full engineering accountability
• Validate AI‑assisted work through tests, code review, static analysis, observability checks, and secure coding practices before merge
• Follow internal AI usage guidance, repository conventions, data‑handling expectations, and review standards

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience building production Android applications
• Strong Kotlin, Android SDK, Jetpack Compose, coroutines, and modern Android architecture expertise
• Experience working in modular Android codebases with shared core modules, design systems, and established architectural patterns
• Strong REST and GraphQL integration experience, including error handling, async state management, and API contract collaboration
• Proven testing discipline across unit, integration, snapshot, and UI testing, including experience running tests in CI
• Experience diagnosing production issues using logs, metrics, crash reporting, analytics, and observability tools
• Familiarity with push notifications, deep links, widgets, feature flags, experimentation, and release management
• Strong Git workflow, code review, and written communication skills
• Practical experience using GenAI developer tools to support software delivery, with the judgment to review, adapt, test, and explain generated code
• Drives ambiguous product and technical problems toward clear, shippable outcomes
• Makes pragmatic tradeoffs across quality, speed, maintainability, performance, and user impact
• Communicates technical decisions clearly to engineering and non‑engineering partners
• Raises team standards through code reviews, design feedback, mentoring, and documentation
• Balances feature delivery with long‑term platform health and operational reliability
• Understands the broader codebase and internal tooling deeply enough to make changes safely across module boundaries

Preferred Skills

• Experience building high‑traffic consumer apps with millions of users
• Media, video streaming, sports, live events, or real‑time data experience
• Experience with Firebase, Datadog, GraphQL clients, analytics platforms, remote configuration, and experimentation frameworks
• Experience improving app startup, rendering performance, memory usage, networking efficiency, or build performance
• Experience in large shared repositories with many contributors and multiple release trains
• Technical leadership experience, including mentoring, architecture reviews, and cross‑team delivery
• Familiarity with responsible GenAI practices, including prompt/context hygiene, AI‑assisted test creation, and evaluation of generated code quality

Salary

$150,000 - $185,000 (Base Salary) + Bonus

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive Benefits Package
• Company 401K Contribution
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
• Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Pet Insurance

About the Company

Employees value MLB's culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism, and those who succeed there take initiative, identify problems and provide solutions, and put the team first.