Staff Android Engineer

Staff Android Software Engineer

As a Staff Android Software Engineer at Fanatics, you'll design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-quality systems to deliver exceptional customer experiences. As part of the Loyalty SDK team at Fanatics, we build the technology that powers how fans see and interact with FanCash across the entire company. Our SDKs and services sit at the heart of the customer journey, enabling every brand and product team to deliver consistent and seamless loyalty experiences. We partner across the organization, move fast with modern tech, and keep quality high so fans always feel the value of loyalty, whether they are shopping, playing, or engaging with new product experiences. If you love building cross-company platforms that touch millions of fans, this is the kind of work that makes an impact.

This is a staff-level role : you'll be hands-on writing and shipping code while also owning platform architecture, driving cross-team initiatives, and mentoring other engineers. Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) experience is required.

Responsibilities :

• Act as the Tech Lead for the Loyalty SDK : own technical roadmap, make architecture and design decisions, run design reviews, and coordinate 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 that you and your team use; drive improvements in developer experience for SDK consumers across the company.
• Architect and deliver Kotlin Multiplatform solutions that maximize shared business logic and minimize platform divergence.
• Participate in the on-call rotation when needed to troubleshoot software issues and lead incident response and postmortems for platform-wide incidents.
• Escalate when tasks or projects hit roadblocks and remove impediments for your team and partner teams.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge; set and evangelize standards and best practices.
• Contribute to team planning and design discussions, building more 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 your team 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 internal 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; contribute to hiring bar and career development.
• Remain current on the latest technologies and trends in mobile and cross-platform development.
• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

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

The salary range for this position is $180,000 to $237,000, which represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training.