Senior Staff Engineer - Android, Kotlin

Job Description

Overview

As a Senior Staff, Android Engineer at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you'll be joining the dynamic and culturally driven Customer Accounts and Transactions (CATx) mobile team, responsible for powering the rapidly growing Fanatics sportsbook app. This team oversees the entire user onboarding journey-from app launch and account creation to login-and enhances customer loyalty by developing features that optimize the overall user experience.

In your role as a Senior Android Staff Engineer, you'll be recognized as a technical leader, combining strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You'll lead ambitious projects, setting the standard for your team through innovative solutions. Your bold decisions will strike the right balance between addressing immediate business needs and ensuring long-term technical excellence. Through your leadership, you'll foster a culture of excellence and innovation, leaving a lasting impact on both your immediate team and the broader mobile development community.

We embrace principles of data-driven development, operational excellence, and continuous process optimization to deliver a stable, scalable platform. Central to our strategy is Kotlin Multiplatform, which empowers us to deliver high-quality features quickly and consistently across multiple ecosystems. By focusing on object-oriented design, modern coding practices, open-source frameworks, and third-party platform integrations, we continuously innovate and deliver at speed in this exciting and fast-moving market.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production
• 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
• Partner closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to make high-impact technical decisions that align with both business goals and long-term scalability
• 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 highly scalable Android applications with MVVM Architecture
• Expert level knowledge of KM SDK
• Expert-level proficiency in Kotlin, with the ability to drive best practices and mentor others in its effective use
• Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Material Design principles
• Android domain expertise, knowing the platform best practices, trends, and end user considerations
• Experience using Jetpack Compose and Direct Injection or ServiceLocator patterns
• Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
• Excels at communicating complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders
• Expertise in Agile software delivery and SCRUM methodology, with a track record of driving process improvements across teams
• Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments, driving alignment and shared success

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and building backend services using Spring Boot or similar Java frameworks
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools
• Experience working in large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with additional languages like Go or Swift is a plus

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

About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

About the Team

Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics Holdings Inc., a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to nearly 93% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. in the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates nineteen retail locations including retail sportsbooks outside of Progressive Field and Nationwide Arena and the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Commanders Field. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver and Dublin, Ireland.