Senior Engineer, Android (Unified Experience)

Fanatics Collectibles; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Collectibles is hiring an Android lead to own the shared foundation across multiple collector apps. You will manage identity, navigation, and modular architecture using Kotlin, Compose, and GraphQL in a modern Gradle setup.

AI-assisted tooling is encouraged, and you will mentor engineers while shipping high-quality Android experiences. The role focuses on end-to-end ownership, performance, and scalable architecture across Live, Instant Rips, Marketplace, and Collections, with a strong

Qualifications

• 5+ years building consumer-facing Android applications at scale.
• Kotlin, coroutines, Flow, and concurrency fundamentals.
• Jetpack Compose with reliable state management and navigation.
• Multi-module Gradle architecture with clean module boundaries.
• Dependency injection with Hilt, Dagger, or Koin.
• GraphQL on Android with Apollo Kotlin.
• CI/CD pipelines and automated release processes.
• Testing practices: unit, UI, and instrumentation tests.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship shared Android foundations and libraries used by multiple collector apps.
• Own identity, session, and entitlement flows across surfaces for seamless sign-in.
• Lead migrations and data-model changes without breaking live users.
• Own features end to end: API contracts, state handling, Compose UI, tests, releases.
• Build deep linking, navigation, and cross-surface handoffs.
• Write robust tests and maintain test coverage across modules.
• Instrument deployments with event tracking, feature flags, and monitoring.
• Optimize startup time, scrolling performance, and memory usage.
• Review PRs and mentor junior engineers to raise quality.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and module boundaries.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Unidirectional state management

Gradle multi-module

Dependency injection

GraphQL on Android

CI/CD tooling

Testing discipline

AI-assisted tooling

Code reviews

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Gradle

Apollo Kotlin

Bitrise

GitHub Actions

Fastlane

Job description

About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

About the Company

Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. Backed by world-class investors, operators, and sports & entertainment partners, we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators.

The Role

You’ll join the Unified Experience team — the group responsible for building seamless collector journeys across Fanatics Live, Marketplace, Instant Rips, Collections, Topps, and future experiences.

This is the Android seat on that team, and it’s a systems role as much as a feature role. You’ll own the shared Android foundation that multiple apps and multiple feature teams depend on: common identity and session handling, shared Compose components and modules, consistent navigation and deep linking between surfaces, and the migration paths that get us from where each app is today to where the unified experience needs it to be. When you get it right, four teams ship faster and collectors stop noticing the seams.

The Android stack is modern by design: Kotlin and Jetpack Compose throughout, Coroutines and Flow for concurrency and state, a unidirectional architecture with a strict state contract, GraphQL against our backend, and a modular multi-module Gradle codebase with automated build and release pipelines. No legacy View-system app hiding under the surface — you’ll be working in a codebase you can be proud of.

AI tooling is part of how we work. We expect engineers to use it on the job, give it good context, and verify the output — not just accept it.

What You’ll Do

• Design and ship shared Android foundations — reusable modules, Compose components, and internal libraries — that multiple collector-facing apps depend on, and treat the engineers consuming them as first‑class customers.
• Own unified identity, session, and entitlement flows across surfaces, so a collector signs in once and moves between Live, Instant Rips, Marketplace, and Collections without friction.
• Lead migrations and consolidations against live users: persistence and data model changes, deprecating divergent implementations, and phased rollouts that don’t break anyone mid-flow.
• Own features end to end — API contracts, state and effect handling, Compose UI, testing, and release.
• Build deep linking, navigation, and cross-surface handoffs that make separate products behave like one.
• Write genuine test coverage: unit tests with fake dependencies, Flow and coroutine test patterns, Compose UI tests where they earn their keep — not coverage theater.
• Instrument what you ship and watch it in production: event tracking, feature flags, staged Play Store rollouts, crash and ANR triage, and monitoring you actually check after launch.
• Own Android performance where users feel it: startup time, jank in scrolling and animation‑heavy surfaces, memory under sustained real‑time load.
• Review pull requests with judgment: surface real defects, prioritize what matters, coach on what to let go.
• Contribute to architectural decisions: modularization strategy, state management, effect handling, failure handling.
• Mentor engineers earlier in their career and raise the quality bar across the team.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years building consumer‑facing Android applications at scale.
• Kotlin — coroutines, structured concurrency, Flow, and a working understanding of where each belongs.
• Jetpack Compose — state hoisting, recomposition and stability, performance‑aware composition, Compose Navigation.
• Unidirectional state management at scale — MVI or a comparable strict, testable architecture (Molecule, Orbit, Mavericks, or a well‑reasoned in‑house pattern) that you can explain and defend.
• Multi‑module Gradle architecture — clean module boundaries, convention plugins, version catalogs, build times you’ve actively fought for.
• Shared architecture across multiple apps — you’ve built reusable modules, SDKs, or internal libraries consumed by more than one app or more than one team, and you understand the API‑stability and versioning discipline that requires.
• Dependency injection — Hilt, Dagger, Koin, or equivalent, used deliberately rather than by habit.
• GraphQL on Android — Apollo Kotlin, schema‑driven development, codegen, subscriptions.
• CI/CD — Bitrise, GitHub Actions, Fastlane, or equivalent automated build/test/release pipelines feeding the Play Console.
• Testing discipline — JUnit, Turbine, Robolectric, Compose testing, and instrumentation tests, with real assertions.
• Static analysis — ktlint, detekt, or equivalent quality gates.
• Hands‑on with AI‑assisted development tooling — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar — with a track record of using it for real work, not demos.
• Structured commit/PR discipline tied to a project tracker (Linear, Jira, or equivalent).
• Comfortable working across team boundaries — this role depends on influence with engineers you don’t manage.

Bonus Points

• Experience with livestreaming, real‑time auctions, or high‑throughput WebSocket/subscription workloads.
• Baseline Profiles, Macrobenchmark, or other systematic Android performance work.
• Exposure to marketplace or e‑commerce Android applications.
• Payments, billing, or Play Billing experience.
• Developer tooling or internal platform work that measurably saved other engineers time.
• Passion for sports cards, collectibles, or live commerce.

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The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short‑term or long‑term incentive compensation. This salary range is specific to New York City and may not be applicable to other locations. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

NYC Salary Range

$160,000—$200,000 USD

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