Senior Android Engineer, MLB App Feature Teams
Major League Baseball3 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build Android features in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose across app, media, and shared platform modules.
- Translate product requirements and Figma designs into accessible, production-ready UI consistent with iOS.
- Design maintainable feature architecture within a modular Android codebase.
- Integrate REST and GraphQL APIs with resilient networking, state management, caching, and clear failure states.
- Improve performance, startup behavior, crash-free sessions, reliability, build time, delivery throughput, code quality, and engineering efficiency.
- Partner with Product, Design, iOS, Backend, QA, and Test Engineering on requirements, technical plans, and test coverage.
- Monitor rollouts and production behavior using Firebase, Datadog, crash reporting, analytics, and release health signals.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventative follow-up work.
- Conduct pull request reviews, mentor engineers, and establish scalable engineering patterns.
- Use GitHub Copilot or similar GenAI assistants for implementation, refactoring, testing, debugging, and documentation while validating output through tests, review, static analysis, observability checks, and secure coding practices.
- Follow internal AI usage, repository, data-handling, and review standards.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional experience building production Android applications.
- Strong expertise in Kotlin, Android SDK, Jetpack Compose, coroutines, and modern Android architecture.
- Experience with modular Android codebases, shared core modules, design systems, and established architectural patterns.
- Strong REST and GraphQL integration experience, including error handling, asynchronous state management, and API contract collaboration.
- Experience with unit, integration, snapshot, and UI testing, including running tests in CI.
- Experience diagnosing production issues with logs, metrics, crash reporting, analytics, and observability tools.
- Familiarity with push notifications, deep links, widgets, feature flags, experimentation, and release management.
- Strong Git workflow, code review, and written communication skills.
- Practical experience using GenAI developer tools and reviewing, adapting, testing, and explaining generated code.
- Experience with high-traffic consumer applications, media or real-time data, and large shared repositories is preferred.
- Technical leadership experience with mentoring, architecture reviews, and cross-team delivery is preferred.
- Familiarity with responsible GenAI practices, including prompt and context hygiene, AI-assisted test creation, and evaluating generated code quality is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
- Company 401(k) contribution
- Paid time off and holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Free tickets to baseball games and MLB.TV
- MLB Store discounts
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Onsite/online training and development programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life and accidental death insurance
- Pet insurance
About Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the professional baseball league for 30 clubs across the United States and Canada. From its New York headquarters, it administers the sport and monetizes games through media rights, sponsorships, licensing, ticketing, and digital subscriptions, operating platforms like MLB.com, MLB.TV, and MLB Network. It also runs development and community programs, including the Jackie Robinson Training Complex in Florida.