Senior Staff Engineer - Mobile/Kotlin

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for Mobile/Kotlin to lead end-to-end Android platform initiatives across Fanatics apps. You will shape architecture, drive best practices, and mentor engineers while delivering high-scale features for a global audience.

You will collaborate with product, design, and other platform leaders, participate in on-call rotations, and occasionally travel to Fanatics offices for conferences and team events.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building scalable Android apps.
• Expertise in Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform.
• Experience with Backend Client APIs and Platform Engineering.
• Strong observability practices including logging, monitoring, and tracing.
• Excellent communication and leadership to mentor teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry, product, and roadmap to shape team strategy.
• Lead end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems from ideation to deployment.
• Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices.
• Champion Android platform decisions using Kotlin Multiplatform to serve Fanatics apps.
• Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders to align with business goals and scalability.
• Lead incident resolution and on-call rotation, ensuring rapid diagnosis and remediation.
• Mentor engineers and drive cross-team collaboration while raising engineering standards.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin Multiplatform

Compose Multiplatform

System architecture

Mentoring

On-call leadership

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

# Senior Staff Engineer - Mobile/KotlinUnited States5 hours agoID 2661400Price on request## DetailsEmployment type: Full-timeRemote: YesCompany: FanaticsLevel: Senior## DescriptionAbout 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. Overview As a Sr. Staff Engineer at Fanatics, you are a recognized technical leader. You operate both strategically and hands-on while leading ambitious projects, and your solutions set the standard for the team. Your bold decisions balance immediate business needs with long-term technical excellence. Through your leadership, you cultivate a culture of excellence and innovation that leaves a lasting impact. We own the Fanatics App, the mobile app at Fanatics that encompasses elements from all of our different brands and businesses. The Fanatics App brings together Free to Play games, live events, ecommerce, and new product experiences to deliver a best-in-class Sports platform. Fundamentally, we are one team in everything we do, from the user experience to coding and architecture. We aim to deliver on our Customer Promise by delighting our millions of monthly active users. Responsibilities • Develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry, product, and roadmap, leveraging this knowledge to shape team strategy and influence the direction of the organization • Lead the end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems, from ideation and architecture to deployment and refinement • Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices • Customer Focused, Android Platform expert driving decisions to best serve Android and the Mobile ecosystem for the Fanatics apps through Kotlin Multi-platform • Partner closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to make high-impact technical decisions that align with both business goals and long-term scalability • Work with iOS and Android leaders throughout the company to share best practices, code and entire features across multiple apps • Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation, ensuring swift diagnosis and remediation of critical software issues • Proactively identify and remove roadblocks, occasionally collaborating cross-team collaboration to maintain momentum on complex projects • Conduct and elevate code reviews, sharing expertise to enhance code quality • Steer team planning and design discussions, introducing innovative approaches to solve technical challenges and optimize design patterns • Champion improvements to software quality, testability, operational metrics, and team documentation, setting a higher standard for the organization • Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth across the team • Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities Required Qualifications • 10+ years of experience building delightful, highly scalable, performant and beloved Android apps, excellence in Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform and other Android technologies • Demonstrated ability to drive consensus and mentor others in effective coding and architectural strategies • Systems-level functional knowledge, experience or understanding of Backend Client API, Platform Engineering, and Client-supporting systems in Marketing and Analytics • Knowledge of observability practices , including logging, monitoring, and tracing in native apps • Excellent communication skills , capable of conveying complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders. • Team-first mentality , with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better. • Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly. Preferred Qualifications • Experience sharing code across multiple native and cross-platform apps, using native libraries or a cross-platform technology like Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform • Experience with webviews and how to stitch together coherence app experiences across multiple technologies • Experience in the sports industry, e-commerce, or gaming • Ability to work in diverse codebases, both legacy and greenfield, in different languages and environments If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply! #LI-AC2...