Senior Staff Engineer - Mobile/Kotlin (REMOTE)

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!

As an Engineering Manager at Fanatics, you will be a technical leader with the ability to grow and scale engineering teams that can deliver business results and ship high-quality software for  customer-facing products and internal platforms.

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.

• Provide leadership and technical expertise within your engineering vertical
• Build and lead one or more teams that will deliver software while adhering (and contributing) to engineering best practices
• Clarify technical requirements, negotiate priorities, and manage projects to deliver on time by leading daily scrum activities
• Clears or escalates blockers to accelerate progress of delivery
• Work closely with your product and design partners to create an ambitious, yet achievable roadmap that can be communicated to executives and stakeholders
• Drive reliable and predictable team execution by setting clear objectives, using data and KPIs to drive transparency, and champion continuous improvement across engineering practices and systems
• Provide clear updates (KPIs, status, metrics) to an executive audience and key stakeholders
• Determine where to simplify, optimize, or extend solutions for the best outcomes
• Help to recruit, assess and onboard a diverse group of talented engineers
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience managing an engineering team
• 4+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems
• You have knowledge of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different teams
• Able to scope a project and with targeted dates to ensure they meet business needs
• Knows how to discern which features are essential, can be triaged, or omitted and works to negotiate with Product Management
• Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders)
• Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Solid report writing skills with the ability to gather, evaluate and analyze relevant information while structuring material in a logical and coherent manner.
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly
• Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
• Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a start-up environment
• Strong mobile software engineering background
• Experience working with Kotlin Multiplatform and/or Compose Multiplatform

If you possess some of these qualifications but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!

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