Senior Staff Engineer - Mobile/Kotlin (REMOTE)

Fanatics Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Inc. is seeking an Sr. Staff Engineer for Android to lead strategic, hands-on work across the Fanatics mobile platform. You will drive end-to-end delivery of complex features, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers to achieve technical excellence.

You will collaborate with product and design to ensure solutions scale across Fanatics apps, including the Fanatics App family, while maintaining a strong focus on reliability and user experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building scalable Android apps.
• Expertise in Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform, and Android technologies.
• Ability to drive consensus and mentor others in architecture and coding.
• Experience with observability practices in native apps.
• Excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead end-to-end Android features and systems from ideation to deployment.
• Set engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices for mobile apps.
• Drive decisions that balance user needs with long-term scalability across Fanatics apps.
• Be a platform expert across Android and the Mobile ecosystem, using Kotlin Multiplatform.
• Collaborate with product, design, and other teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Lead incident resolution and on-call rotation, ensuring rapid remediation of critical issues.
• Mentor engineers at all levels and elevate code quality through reviews and coaching.
• Shape team planning and design discussions with innovative approaches.
• Promote improvements in testing, observability, and documentation standards.
• Occasionally travel to Fanatics offices and events for collaboration.

Skills

Kotlin Multiplatform

Android

Compose Multiplatform

Leadership

Mentoring

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.

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 brand‑forward application of Fanatics that encompasses elements of all of our different brands and businesses. The Fanatics App brings together Free to Play sports games, live events, ecommerce, and new product experiences to deliver a new Sports platform. Fundamentally, we are one team in everything we do from the user experience to coding and architecture. In order to deliver on our Customer Promise, we use best in class technologies; thus allowing platforms to be as up to date as possible so that we can rapidly deliver and innovate in this exciting new market.

Every time a fan places a bet, earns a reward, or checks out on Fanatics – Fanatics Core made that possible. We build the shared foundations – identity, payments, loyalty, wallet, data, and platform – that power sports betting, ecommerce, collectibles, and beyond. We supercharge the business by providing products and capabilities so that teams can focus on what matters most: building delightful experiences for the fans.

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