Senior Android Engineer - Real-Time Sports App Features

Major League Baseball (MLB); New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Benefits Package

Company 401K Contribution

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Gr

MLB.TV access

Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com

Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)

Onsite/Online Training & Development

Tuition Reimbursement

Disability Benefits (short term and 
)

Life and Accidental Death Insurance

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Major League Baseball is seeking a Senior Android Engineer for the MLB App Feature Teams to own Android feature delivery end-to-end, creating experiences such as personalized feeds, real-time scores, and media experiences. You will design scalable architectures and work with product/design to ship polished UI across platforms.

You will drive performance, reliability, and observability, collaborating with cross-functional partners and mentoring engineers while leveraging GenAI responsibly to

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.

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 behavior, 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 behavior 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.

Skills

Kotlin

Android SDK

Jetpack Compose

Coroutines

REST

GraphQL

Testing

Observability

Git workflow

GenAI tools

CI

Architecture patterns

Tools

Firebase

Datadog

GraphQL clients

Analytics platforms

Remote configuration

Experimentation frameworks

Job description

Major League Baseball is seeking a Senior Android Engineer for the MLB App Feature Teams to own Android feature delivery end-to-end, creating experiences such as personalized feeds, real-time scores, and media experiences. You will design scalable architectures and work with product/design to ship polished UI across platforms.

You will drive performance, reliability, and observability, collaborating with cross-functional partners and mentoring engineers while leveraging GenAI responsibly to