Fanatics Collectibles - Senior Engineer, Android - Instant Rips

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality Android applications using Kotlin and modern Android development practices. • Own complex features and technical initiatives from design through implementation, launch, and ongoing operation. • Partner closely with Product and Design to translate customer needs into intuitive, performant mobile experiences. • Build applications that are reliable, scalable, accessible, and responsive across a broad range of Android devices. • Provide Technical Leadership • Make sound architectural and technical decisions within the Android domain and contribute to broader mobile engineering decisions. • Identify technical risks and opportunities and recommend solutions that balance product velocity, scalability, reliability, and maintainability. • Establish and promote engineering practices that improve code quality, testing, observability, and developer productivity. • Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to engineers while raising the quality of engineering execution across the team. • Drive Quality & Operational Excellence • Improve application performance, stability, security, and reliability through measurement and continuous improvement. • Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across mobile applications and their supporting services. • Use monitoring, experimentation, and customer feedback to identify opportunities to improve product and technical performance. • Reduce technical debt and evolve existing systems while balancing near-term product priorities. • Collaborate Across Teams • Partner with backend, platform, iOS, web, data, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive customer experiences. • Collaborate effectively with Product, Design, Data, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements and navigate technical tradeoffs. • Contribute to technical planning and help break complex initiatives into clear, executable work. • Communicate technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building and shipping Android applications. • Deep proficiency with Kotlin and the modern Android ecosystem. • Kotlin • Strong knowledge of Android architecture, application lifecycle, concurrency, networking, persistence, and performance optimization. • Experience with modern Android frameworks and practices such as Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Flow, dependency injection, and automated testing. • Experience designing and delivering complex features with limited oversight. • Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, distributed systems, and how mobile applications interact with backend services. • Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex technical problems and drive them through resolution. • Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across Product, Design, and Engineering. • Experience providing technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers. • Experience building high-scale consumer mobile products. • Experience with commerce, marketplaces, livestreaming, social platforms, payments, or other transaction-oriented products. • Experience with mobile observability, experimentation, analytics, and performance tooling. • Familiarity with CI/CD and mobile release automation. • Experience working within a shared mobile platform or multi-product engineering environment. • Passion for sports, collectibles, fandom, or building products that bring communities together. • The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. • Subject to applicable laws, Fanatics Collectibles may choose to run a background check. • Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud.  Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Feel free to ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of communication for interview, and ensure your communication is coming from a Fanatics email address (including @collectfanatics.com).  For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.fanaticsinc.com/careers • By submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy. • Fanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Fanatics recruiting, please do not respond and report it here.