Fanatics

Engineering Manager, Mobile Platform

Fanatics • $174K — $218K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 2+ years of experience managing and developing engineers
  • Experience leading client platform, frontend, mobile, or cross-platform engineering teams across iOS, Android, and/or Web
  • Strong judgment around delivery, quality, architecture, performance, reliability, and technical tradeoffs
  • Experience improving release quality, observability, developer productivity, CI/CD health, or platform reliability through engineering systems and operational practices
  • Ability to lead through influence across multiple product and engineering teams

Responsibilities

  • Manage, coach, and develop engineers working across iOS, Android, and Web client platforms
  • Lead platform initiatives focused on developer productivity, release reliability, observability, shared tooling, and client platform health
  • Establish clear expectations, priorities, ownership boundaries, and success metrics for the Client Platform Team
  • Drive execution of platform initiatives that improve developer workflows, release safety, observability, and client quality
  • Partner with cross-functional teams on planning, sequencing, and execution of initiatives
  • Improve release-readiness processes, CI/CD health, PR validation quality, automated testing practices, and incident follow-through
  • Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, logs, and operational workflows that improve visibility into critical client experiences

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Employee discounts on products and services
Full Job Description
About the Team

Fanatics Collect is a leading marketplace and platform for physical and digital collectibles, bringing together commerce, content, and community for collectors at massive scale. We are building high-quality, fan-first experiences and investing deeply in modern engineering, product, and design practices to support long-term growth.

Role Summary

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Client Platform Team across iOS, Android, and Web for the Live and Collect apps. This role is responsible for people leadership, platform execution, operational excellence, and strong technical judgment across shared client infrastructure and engineering workflows.

The Client Platform Team owns shared client infrastructure, developer tooling, observability foundations, release systems, and cross-platform standards that enable product engineering teams to ship high-quality client experiences faster and more safely. Product engineering teams remain responsible for feature delivery and operational quality within their domains, while the platform team enables consistency, visibility, reliability, and scalable engineering practices across the organization.

This role partners closely with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, SRE/Infrastructure, and other cross-functional stakeholders to improve release reliability, client observability, developer productivity, and platform health across the Live and Collect ecosystem.

This role is expected to be technically engaged and hands-on with engineering workflows, architecture discussions, operational reviews, debugging, and development practices while remaining primarily focused on team leadership, execution, and organizational impact.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage, coach, and develop engineers working across iOS, Android, and Web client platforms
  • Lead platform initiatives focused on developer productivity, release reliability, observability, shared tooling, and client platform health
  • Establish clear expectations, priorities, ownership boundaries, and success metrics for the Client Platform Team
  • Drive execution of platform initiatives that improve developer workflows, release safety, observability, and client quality
  • Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, SRE/Infrastructure, and other stakeholders on planning, sequencing, and execution
  • Partner with engineering leadership to prioritize platform reliability, developer productivity, observability, and modernization investments alongside product delivery commitments
  • Improve release-readiness processes, CI/CD health, PR validation quality, automated testing practices, and incident follow-through
  • Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, logs, and operational workflows that improve visibility into critical client experiences
  • Partner with client engineering teams on shared architectural patterns, framework adoption, dependency health, and platform consistency
  • Drive effective adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows, including development tooling, documentation, testing support, code review augmentation, and developer enablement best practices
  • Remain technically engaged in architecture discussions, operational reviews, development workflows, and engineering quality practices while empowering engineers to own implementation details
  • Support hiring, onboarding, team growth, and a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement

Platform Responsibilities and Operational Focus

The Client Platform Team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems, tooling, standards, dashboards, alerts, and operational workflows that improve release reliability, client observability, performance visibility, developer productivity, and platform health across iOS, Android, and Web applications.

The team partners closely with product engineering teams to identify issues, drive improvements, establish best practices, and support operational excellence across critical client experiences.

Qualifications
Required
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 2+ years of experience managing and developing engineers
  • Experience leading client platform, frontend, mobile, or cross-platform engineering teams across iOS, Android, and/or Web
  • Strong judgment around delivery, quality, architecture, performance, reliability, and technical tradeoffs
  • Experience improving release quality, observability, developer productivity, CI/CD health, or platform reliability through engineering systems and operational practices
  • Ability to lead through influence across multiple product and engineering teams
Preferred
  • Experience with consumer-facing, marketplace, commerce, live, or real-time products
  • Experience in high-growth or fast-paced environments
  • Hands-on familiarity with modern client observability, performance monitoring, CI/CD, automated testing, and release management practices
  • Experience implementing or scaling AI-assisted engineering workflows and developer productivity tooling
What Success Looks Like
  • A healthy, engaged Client Platform Team with clear ownership and strong operating rhythms
  • Measurable improvements in release reliability, client observability, developer workflows, and platform health
  • Faster, safer delivery for Live and Collect app teams through improved tooling, release systems, shared libraries, and engineering workflows
  • Reduced platform debt through better dependency health, framework/library currency, code quality, and maintainability
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, and operational partners
  • Thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows that improve engineering effectiveness while maintaining accountability for quality and outcomes
  • Engineers who feel supported, challenged, and clear on growth paths


The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. This salary range is specific to Los Angeles and may not be applicable to other locations. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

Los Angeles Salary Range

$162,720-$203,400 USD

The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. This salary range is specific to New York City and may not be applicable to other locations. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

NYC Salary Range

$174,800-$218,500 USD

About Fanatics

Fanatics is a leading retailer of licensed sports merchandise. The company was founded in 1995 and has grown to become the largest online retailer of officially licensed sports merchandise in the world. Fanatics offers a wide range of products, including jerseys, hats, and other apparel, as well as collectibles and memorabilia. The company has partnerships with all major sports leagues and teams, as well as with individual athletes. Fanatics is committed to providing a seamless shopping experience for its customers and has invested heavily in technology and logistics to ensure fast and reliable delivery.
Learn more about Fanatics
Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1995

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