How does this role fit within the team/department?
Senior engineers have a significant role in owning the technical design and development of medium to large sized features that align with the organizational business goals.

Overview of the team:
Fantasy Android team comprises 8–10 Android engineers with average work experience of around 8 years.

Key team goals:
Build and maintain high quality Fantasy Sports features on the Android platform in alignment with the organizational business goals.

Primary responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other developers and designers to help define, build, and deliver new features in our Sports mobile apps

• Code — you will spend much of your time building Android apps, efficiently coding in Java/Kotlin. This includes new feature development, architecture, writing unit tests, refactors, and bug/crash fixes

• Share responsibilities like app architecture/design reviews, code reviews, performance tuning, and build pipeline management

• Own and deliver — from executing difficult refactors to planning complex projects with many moving parts

Key projects or initiatives for the role:

• Fantasy Sports feature development on Android

Success metrics or KPIs for this role:

• On-time delivery of quality code meeting project deadlines

• Good feedback from other engineers and leads of the project team

How is success measured?

• Code quality

• PR reviews

• Feedback from the team

Must-have skill:

• Solid coding chops, code design skills, and practitioner of mobile development best practices — including object-oriented design principles; design pattern usage; writing modular, reusable, testable code; data structures; concurrency; performance profiling and tuning

• Expertise in Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, Gradle, git, etc. — the skills and tools needed to build Android apps

• Up-to-date on the Android best practices such as Live Data, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Flows

• Expertise in various Android App architectures — MVP, MVVM, MVI

• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills

Ideal experience level:

• 5–10 years in shipping high quality Android apps

Desired personality or work style:

• Collaborate with other developers and designers to help define, build, and deliver new features in our Sports mobile apps

Key attributes or values sought in the candidate:

• Discipline in adhering to team’s established best practices

• Committed and hardworking