Senior Android Engineer, App Platform

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports 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 mission of the App Platform team at GameChanger is to empower teams to maintain mobile apps at scale. App Platform stewards architecture foundations modularization dependency management and several internal frameworks like observability notifications and feature toggling. The teams primary customers are the engineering teams that work on the Android and iOS apps. As a Senior Android Engineer on the App Platform team you will influence the engineering organization by guiding projects that improve the developer experience and accelerate teams with a focus on the Android platform. You will report to Senior Engineering Manager of the App Platform Team.

What Youll Do:

• Build foundational and scalable solutions for Android engineers that work on multiple domain-specific teams.

• Create developer SDKs that modernize our tech stack; promote the use of our SDKs and lead multi-team migrations. Our Android codebase uses Kotlin with Jetpack Compose Realm and Flows/RxJava.

• Monitor and improve the performance of our Android tooling including local development tools and CI/CD systems.

• Understand App Platforms users by gathering data from internal tools participating in the Android guild and working with directly with Android engineers from other teams.

• Help define the teams technical roadmaps.

• Contribute to the teams internal developer support on-call rotation.

Who You Are:

• Have a deep technical understanding of the Android platform. This understanding includes knowledge of the operating system first-party API (performance concurrency state UI) dependency management build configurations and artifacts compiler and runtime.

• You have 4 years experience with Android CI/CD systems and tooling (Gradle GitHub Actions Firebase App Distribution and Google Play Console) with experience optimizing build pipelines for developer productivity.

• You take ownership of technical planning and production reliability; from designing solutions and anticipating risks to responding to incidents independently and improving observability to prevent future issues.

• You lead cross-team projects guide collaboration mentor teammates guarantee work aligns with goals and address risks to long-term maintainability.

• You integrate multiple perspectives into technical decisions. You incorporate product business and operational considerations into your designs while identifying risks and future scenarios that could affect system health.

• You communicate complex technical concepts in technical documentation ad-hoc communications and can present these concepts to larger audiences internally.

Perks:

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

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• Technology stipend - $4000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology.

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

• Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development.

• Monthly physical mental wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.

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

• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard with an immediate company match.

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

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

• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

• Family building benefits offered through Progyny.

• DICKS Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.

The target salary range for this position is between $160000 and $180000. 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.

* DICKS Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant 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.

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.

Our Interview Process & AI

We recognize that AI has become a common part of everyday life and professional work and its use continues to evolve rapidly. Our perspective on AI in the hiring process will evolve as well. At this time we ask that candidates please refrain from using AI tools during interviews and assessments as we want to see your authentic self. We will clearly indicate if and when AI use is acceptable in the process. If you have any questions or need accommodations were here to help. Thanks for helping us keep the process fair and secure for everyone!

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Required Experience:

Senior IC