Android Software Engineer, Fanatics at GameChanger

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

The Fanatics team is dedicated to making GameChanger the ultimate hub for community engagement and insights around young athletes. Our mission is to grow the GameChanger community by bringing more fans, family members, and friends into the ecosystem, and connecting them with highly personalized and relevant content that brings them closer to the action.

As an Android Software Engineer, you will use modern tools to develop features in our native Android application and across the stack. You will build engaging user-facing features by contributing your expertise, writing code, and making architectural decisions on a team of Product Managers, Designers, QA Analysts, and Engineers. You will report to one of our Product Engineering Managers.

What You'll Do:

• Lead feature development for fan experiences, community engagement, and personalized content throughout the stack, with a focus on our Android app.

• Work with peers on important decisions about how our applications are architected and built.

• Team up with designers, testers, and product managers to find the best solutions for our customers.

• Teach and learn with engineers across the company.

• Promote responsible engineering practices and mentor team members.

• Drive consensus on your team and solutions to challenging problems.

Who You Are:

• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals.

• Experience leading successful Android projects.

• Experience shipping beautiful, high-quality apps.

• Participate in regular design and code reviews with development team members to confirm use of best practices.

• Understand and evaluate new technologies, develop skills in new technologies.

• Passion and experienced working with the latest Android tech.

• Comfort working in a cross-functional product team.

• Experience mentoring engineers and organizing work within a team.

Experience:

• Our apps are written in Kotlin and use a reactive MVVM architecture driven by the Jetpack lifecycle components (including Compose), Realm, and Flows/RxJava.

• Your team will also do iOS development in Swift, so having background there would be a bonus, but is not required.

• Our backend APIs are built with TypeScript, Node.js, Redis, Kafka, and PostgreSQL and run in AWS. It's not required that you know these, but being able to work closely with the backend engineers on your team by understanding these technologies is a bonus.

Perks:

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.

• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.

• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.

• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.

• Generous parental leave.

• DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The target salary range for this position is between $130,000 and $160,000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

*DICK'S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect us from compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @gc.com and/or no-reply@ashby.hq.com. If you receive communication from any other domain, please be cautious, as it is likely fraudulent.