Senior Engineer, Android - Instant Rips

Description

The company is a new collectibles business at the meeting point of collectibles, culture and technology. It is part of a wider sports platform that reaches more than 81 million fans and spans over 900 sports properties.

The company is building a next-generation collectibles offering with backing from investors, operators and sports and entertainment partners. This Senior Android Engineer role works on one or more products or platforms, alongside Product, Design, Data and Engineering, on complex customer and technical problems. You will own significant features and technical initiatives from design through production, shape technical solutions, and guide other engineers. The work is hands-on, with a broader focus on team quality and the Android engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-quality Android apps in Kotlin using current Android practices, including testing.
• Take ownership of complex features and technical initiatives from design through launch and ongoing operation.
• Work with Product and Design to turn customer needs into intuitive, fast mobile experiences.
• Make apps reliable, scalable, accessible and responsive across many Android devices.
• Make sound architecture and technical decisions for Android and contribute to wider mobile decisions.
• Spot technical risks and opportunities, and recommend fixes that balance release speed, scale, reliability and maintainability.
• Set and promote practices for code quality, testing, observability and developer productivity.
• Give technical guidance, code reviews and mentorship to raise execution quality across the team.
• Improve performance, stability, security and reliability by measuring results and iterating.
• Diagnose and fix complex production issues across apps and the services behind them.
• Use monitoring, experiments and customer feedback to find performance gains.
• Reduce technical debt and evolve existing systems alongside near-term priorities.
• Work with backend, platform, iOS, web and data teams to deliver a consistent customer experience.
• Help plan complex work and break it into clear, doable tasks.
• Explain decisions, risks and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional software engineering, including substantial experience shipping Android apps.
• Deep working knowledge of Kotlin and the current Android ecosystem.
• Solid grasp of Android architecture, app lifecycle, concurrency, networking, persistence and performance tuning.
• Hands-on use of Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Flow, dependency injection and automated testing.
• Track record of designing and delivering complex features with little supervision.
• Strong grasp of software architecture, APIs, distributed systems and how mobile apps interact with backend services.
• Proven skill at diagnosing hard technical problems and driving them to resolution.
• Clear communicator who works well with Product, Design and Engineering.
• Experience guiding and mentoring other engineers.
• Preferred: experience building high-scale consumer mobile products.
• Preferred: experience with commerce, marketplaces, livestreaming, social platforms, payments or other transaction-driven products.
• Preferred: experience with mobile observability, experimentation, analytics and performance tooling.
• Preferred: familiarity with CI/CD and mobile release automation.
• Preferred: experience working within a shared mobile platform or multi-product engineering setup.
• Preferred: interest in sports, collectibles, fandom or building products that bring communities together.

Conditions

The listed duties are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on other tasks reasonably expected within the scope and grade of the role.