Staff Android Full Stack Engineer, Fanatics Markets

Fanatics is a global digital sports platform focused on enhancing fan engagement. They are seeking a Staff Android Full Stack Engineer to contribute to the development of their real-money prediction and trading app, ensuring high-quality software delivery and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to 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 contribute to team strategy and provide input on the direction of the organization
• Execute the end-to-end technical implementation of complex features and systems, from ideation and architecture to deployment and refinement across backend & frontend
• Partner closely with our client platform team who helps define & grow our client standards, best practices and shared ui experience library platform across the organization
• Partner closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to make impactful technical decisions that align with both business goals and long-term scalability
• Participate in incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation, ensuring swift diagnosis and remediation of critical software issues
• Proactively identify and remove roadblocks, supporting cross-team collaboration to maintain momentum on complex projects
• Conduct thorough code reviews, sharing expertise to enhance code quality
• Actively participate in team planning and design discussions, contributing innovative approaches to solve technical challenges and optimize design patterns
• Drive improvements to software quality, testability, operational metrics, and team documentation, raising the standard within the team
• Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth on the team
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development velocity while maintaining code quality standards
• Follow and contribute to team standards for AI tool usage (prompt patterns, code review checklists, validation strategies)
• Track and share insights on AI tool effectiveness through concrete metrics (PR velocity, bug rates, test coverage)
• Identify and prevent common AI-generated code pitfalls (over-abstraction, missing edge cases, security vulnerabilities)

Requirements:

• 6-7 years building highly scalable Android apps and professional experience with backend microservices and distributed systems in Kotlin
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin language features especially coroutines, flows, idioms, and best practices with the ability to contribute to best practices and mentor peers in its effective use
• Some exposure to building full-stack applications
• Solid understanding of reactive programming patterns and asynchronous data processing
• Proficiency in Gradle build systems, including multi-module projects, custom plugins, and dependency management
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, SDK versioning strategies, and automated release management for mobile applications and libraries
• The bulk of our frontend business logic strategy relies on Kotlin Multiplatform (KM). You should be comfortable learning and developing business logic within this ecosystem
• Experience with Jetpack Compose
• Android domain expertise, knowing the platform best practices, trends, and end user considerations
• Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) to ship production code
• Can demonstrate specific examples of workflow improvements (e.g., "reduced boilerplate generation time by 40%")
• Has developed personal strategies for validating AI-generated code and identifying common pitfalls
• Effectively communicates complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including engineers and stakeholders
• Solid understanding of Agile software delivery and SCRUM methodology, with a track record of contributing to process improvements within teams
• Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly
• Strong ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments, supporting alignment and shared success
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform(KM)
• Compose Multiplatform Experience
• Experience designing and building backend services using Spring Boot or similar Java frameworks
• Experience working in large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Exposure to Swift & iOS development frameworks