Senior Android Engineer

The Role

As an Android Software Engineer at Fanatics, you'll design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-quality systems to deliver exceptional customer experiences. 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.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop, test, document, and deploy high quality software into production

• Build features and tools that you and your team use

• Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues

• Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks

• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge

• Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more expertise around design approaches

• Impact software quality and customer experience of product features

• Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, and team documentation

• Help your team define and adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy

• Develop a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap

• Work closely with our product team and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products

• Help to onboard and mentor junior engineers and interns

• Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in software development

• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities

What We’re Looking For:

• 3+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant mobile applications using Kotlin

• 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

• You have an agile mindset; able to embrace new initiatives in a fast-paced environment

• 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

• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform

• Experience with Jetpack Compose

• Experience with Java