[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager - Mobile, Fanatics Markets

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform, and they are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Client Multiplatform to lead the engineering team powering the Fanatics Markets app. This role involves managing mobile engineers, setting the technical direction for Kotlin Multiplatform strategy, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality features across platforms.ResponsibilitiesLead, coach, and develop staff and senior engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvementOwn end-to-end technical execution of complex features — from architecture and design to deployment and iteration — including proactive consideration of edge cases, testing, and operational concernsPartner with the client platform team to define and evolve shared standards, best practices, and UI libraries across the organization — balancing your product team's priorities with contributions back to the shared platformProvide architectural oversight for Kotlin/Java services built with Spring Boot, ensuring engineering best practices are upheld and integration points and dependencies are anticipated earlySet and track engineering goals around availability, performance, quality, and delivery cadence — holding teams accountable to outcomesRecruit, retain, and scale top engineering talent through thoughtful hiring, mentorship, and inclusive team cultureLead multi-team planning and design discussions, introducing innovative approaches to technical challenges and driving adoption of best practices across platform boundaries without relying on formal authorityAdvocate for engineering at the executive level, influencing technology strategy and investment in distributed systems and mobile infrastructure — translating complex multiplatform decisions into terms that resonate with product and executive audiencesSkills10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing mobile engineering teamsProven track record building highly scalable, consumer-facing Android applications using MVI architecture with deep understanding of unidirectional data flow and state immutability at scaleExpert-level Kotlin proficiency — coroutines, flows (including Flow vs. SharedFlow distinctions), custom scopes, and thread dispatchers — with the ability to mentor others in its effective useStrong experience with reactive programming patterns and asynchronous data processing, including real-time data via WebSockets, gRPC, and Ktor for networkingExperience designing offline-first data sync layers (e.g., SQLDelight) with an understanding of schema migrations, eventual consistency, and how distributed/async backend state surfaces through MVI to the end userProficiency with Gradle build systems at scale — multi-module projects, convention plugins, remote build caching, dependency substitution, and custom plugin authoringExperience designing CI/CD pipelines that validate KMP changes across both Android and iOS builds, including strategies to catch shared module breakages before they reach native buildsHands-on experience with Jetpack Compose — including recomposition optimization, stability annotations, and state hoisting — and familiarity with Compose Multiplatform trade-offsDeep Android platform expertise — best practices, trends, and end-user considerations — with awareness of iOS conventions sufficient to ensure KMP modules remain idiomatic for both platformsDemonstrated ability to lead multi-team programs and scale engineering organizations through high-growth phases, including building cross-team alignment and handling skepticism from platform peersExpertise in Agile/Scrum delivery, with a track record of driving process improvements and clear, effective communication across engineering, product, design, and executive audiencesProduction experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), including shipped features — not just explorationFamiliarity with expect/actual patterns, interface injection, iOS interop, and the organizational challenges of cross-platform adoptionBenefitsIn addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more.For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/Company OverviewFanatics is a global sports platform reimagining the fan experience across gear, trading cards, sports betting, content, events, and more. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.fanaticsinc.com.Company H1B SponsorshipFanatics has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.