Overview  As a Senior Staff Engineer (Client Kotlin Engineer) at Fanatics Betting &amp; Gaming (FBG), you’ll be responsible for powering the rapidly growing Fanatics sportsbook app.  In your role as a Senior Staff Engineer youll be recognized as a technical leader, combining strategic thinking with hands-on execution. Youll 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 <ul> <li>Drive the development, testing, documentation, and deployment of high-quality, scalable software into production</li> <li>Develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry, product, and roadmap, leveraging this knowledge to shape team strategy and influence the direction of the organization</li> <li>Lead the end-to-end technical execution of complex features and systems, from ideation and architecture to deployment and refinement</li> <li>Partner closely with our client platform team who helps define &amp; grow our client standards, best practices and shared ui experience library platform across the organization.</li> <li>Define and enforce engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices </li> <li>Partner closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to make high-impact technical decisions that align with both business goals and long-term scalability</li> <li>Lead incident resolution as part of the on-call rotation, ensuring swift diagnosis and remediation of critical software issues</li> <li>Proactively identify and remove roadblocks, occasionally collaborating cross-team collaboration to maintain momentum on complex projects</li> <li>Conduct and elevate code reviews, sharing expertise to enhance code quality</li> <li>Steer team planning and design discussions, introducing innovative approaches to solve technical challenges and optimize design patterns</li> <li>Champion improvements to software quality, testability, operational metrics, and team documentation, setting a higher standard for the organization</li> <li>Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth across the team</li> <li>Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities</li> </ul> Qualifications <ul> <li>10+ years of experience building highly scalable Android applications with MVI Architecture </li> <li>Expert-level knowledge of Kotlin language features especially coroutines, flows, idioms, and best practices with the ability to drive best practices and mentor other engineers in its effective use</li> <li>Strong experience with reactive programming patterns and asynchronous data processing</li> <li>Proficiency in Gradle build systems, including multi-module projects, custom plugins, and dependency management</li> <li>Experience with CI/CD pipelines, SDK versioning strategies, and automated release management for mobile applications and libraries</li> <li>The bulk of our business logic strategy relies on Kotlin Multiplatform (KM). You should be comfortable learning and developing business logic within this ecosystem.</li> <li>Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Material Design principles</li> <li>Android domain expertise, knowing the platform best practices, trends, and end user considerations</li> <li>Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better</li> <li>Excels at communicating complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders</li> <li>Expertise in Agile software delivery and SCRUM methodology, with a track record of driving process improvements across teams</li> <li>Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly</li> <li>Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments, driving alignment and shared success</li> </ul> Preferred Qualifications <ul> <li>Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform(KM)</li> <li>Compose Multiplatform Experience</li> <li>Experience designing and building backend services using Spring Boot or similar Java frameworks</li> <li>Experience working in large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures</li> <li>Exposure to Swift &amp; iOS development frameworks</li> </ul> Ready to build the future of sports betting? If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply! The expected salary range for this role is based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award. *Salary range is listed in USD; actual salary will vary based on location. *Salary Range: $160,000 - $318,000 per year (actual salary will be determined in part by a successful candidate’s geographic location). In addition to base salary, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, and more. We’ll also give you $700 to set up your home office! <div> 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 &amp; 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.  </div>Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.