Android Engineer

As a Staff Android Software Engineer at Fanatics, you will design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high‑quality systems that deliver exceptional customer experiences. You will be part of the Loyalty SDK team that powers fan interactions across Fanatics products. Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) experience is required.

• Act as the Tech Lead for the Loyalty SDK, owning the technical roadmap, architecture, design decisions, design reviews, and coordinating delivery across product, backend, and other mobile teams.
• Lead the design and evolution of our Loyalty SDK and shared mobile platform components, ensuring scalability, reusability, and operational excellence.
• Build features and tools for internal and external teams, driving improvements in developer experience for SDK consumers.
• Architect and deliver Kotlin Multiplatform solutions that maximize shared business logic and minimize platform divergence.
• Participate in the on‑call rotation, troubleshoot software issues, and lead incident response and post‑mortems for platform‑wide incidents.
• Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks, removing impediments for your team and partner teams.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge, setting and evangelizing standards and best practices.
• Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building expertise around design approaches and influencing roadmap decisions.
• Impact software quality and customer experience of product features through design and technical leadership.
• Improve testability, operational excellence metrics, observability, and team documentation.
• Help define and adhere to principles, guidelines, and best practices of our engineering strategy.
• Develop a fundamental understanding of our industry, product, feature set and roadmap to make pragmatic, product‑minded engineering decisions.
• Work closely with product, design, backend, and other stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products.
• Help onboard, mentor, and grow junior engineers and interns.
• Help recruit and interview mobile engineers, contributing to hiring and career development.
• Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in mobile and cross‑platform development.
• Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team‑building activities.

• Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) – demonstrated experience building, shipping, and maintaining KMP‑based modules or apps in production.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant focus on Android development.
• Strong experience building highly scalable and fault‑tolerant mobile applications using Kotlin.
• Deep knowledge of modern Android toolchain and Jetpack libraries, architecture patterns, Kotlin coroutines/Flow, and testing (unit, instrumentation, UI).
• Experience designing and owning reusable libraries and cross‑team platform components.
• Proven ability to lead large‑scale technical initiatives (modularization, CI/CD for mobile, performance optimizations, release engineering).
• Able to communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, product, marketing, operations, non‑technical stakeholders).
• Familiar with Agile product delivery and SCRUM methodology.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills; data‑informed and pragmatic decision maker.
• Agile mindset and thrives in a fast‑paced environment where priorities evolve regularly.
• Team‑first mentality with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to continuously improve.
• Able to work cross‑functionally within an enterprise environment.

• Experience with Jetpack Compose in production.
• Experience developing and maintaining production SDKs for mobile platforms.
• Experience working in a start‑up or hyper‑growth environment.
• Familiarity with analytics, feature flags, A/B testing frameworks, and release experimentation.
• Experience with observability and performance tooling (Crashlytics, Datadog, Android Profiler).
• Open‑source contributions or published libraries in the Kotlin/KMP ecosystem.
• Experience with iOS or other platform development is a strong plus for cross‑platform strategy.

Benefits information is available at

Salary Range: $180,000 - $237,000 USD