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!
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Ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed. In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience building scalable, performant Android applications
- Expertise in Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform, and Android technologies
- Ability to drive consensus and mentor others on coding and architecture
- Systems-level knowledge of Backend Client API, Platform Engineering, and client-supporting Marketing and Analytics systems
- Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in native applications
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Team-first mentality and willingness to improve processes and outcomes
- Ability to thrive in a high-growth environment with changing priorities
- Experience sharing code across multiple native and cross-platform applications
- Experience with webviews and integrating coherent experiences across technologies
- Experience in sports, e-commerce, or gaming
- Ability to work across legacy and greenfield codebases, languages, and environments
Fanatics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fanatics and has not been reviewed or approved by Fanatics.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentives like annual bonuses and overtime opportunities are common, supporting higher total compensation especially in corporate roles. Seasonal premiums and performance bonuses are also cited across roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options, mental-health services, and wellness programs are highlighted as core offerings. Additional supports like HSAs/FSAs and condition management further strengthen the health package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave, fertility benefits, adoption assistance, and gender-affirmation coverage are explicitly included. Childcare support and backup care resources are also referenced.
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What We Do
Transforming the licensed sports industry through an innovative vertical e-commerce model that allows Fanatics to quickly design, manufacture and distribute high-quality fan gear across retail channels, better serving the real-time expectations of leagues, teams, fans and retailers in today’s mobile-first, on-demand culture.
Why Work With Us
You don't have to love sports to work here (though we love sports fanatics as well!). Fanatics is an industry leading, multi-billion dollar, international, privately held company with a casual, lofty space in the heart of Downtown Boulder. We have the advantages of a startup, without the pitfalls.
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