Senior Engineer, iOS Instant Rips

About the Team

Fanatics Collectibles is the home of sports cards trading cards and collectibles for over 100 million fans worldwide. As part of the global Fanatics platform were rebuilding how collectors discover buy sell and experience their hobby live in real time at scale.

Our flagship mobile product Fanatics Live is where that experience comes to life: live card breaks real-time auctions high-traffic chat marketplace transactions and deep collection management tools. The stakes are high and the traffic is real we build for peak-load moments where latency is visible and reliability is nonnegotiable.

Role Summary

Youll join the Instant Rips iOS team the group responsible for the live-break commerce experience on Fanatics Live. We build the surfaces millions of collectors use in real time: bidding in live auctions joining breaks navigating a high-velocity chat stream and transacting in the marketplace.

The iOS stack is modern by design. Were SwiftUI-first run The Composable Architecture TCA) across the app use Swift Concurrency throughout talk to our backend via Apollo GraphQL and maintain a clean modular SPM codebase generated with Tuist. Theres no legacy UIKit app hiding under the surface youll be working in a codebase you can be proud of.

AI tooling is part of how we work. We expect engineers to use it on the job give it good context and verify the output not just accept it.

• Design and ship production iOS features across the live-break experience: auctions stream viewing chat marketplace and collector tools
• Own features end-to-end API contracts TCA reducers SwiftUI views testing and release
• Write genuine test coverage: unit tests with mock dependencies TCA
• TestStore assertions async test patterns not coverage theater
• Review pull requests with judgment: surface real defects prioritize what matters coach on what to let go
• Contribute to architectural decisions: modularization strategy effect management failure handling
• Mentor engineers earlier in their career and raise the quality bar across the team

• 5 years building consumer-facing iOS applications at scale
• Hands-on with AI-assisted development tooling LLM optimization loopsXcode CLI integration)
• Swift Concurrency async/await structured concurrency Sendable SwiftMacros
• SwiftUI stateless/stateful view patterns NavigationStack performanceaware composition
• The Composable Architecture TCA Reducer/Store/Action/State effect management parent-child delegation testing with TestStore
• Apollo GraphQL (iOS) schema-driven development Swift codegen subscriptions
• SPM multi-package architecture modular feature separation local packages clean dependency graphs
• Tuist or XcodeGen project generation tooling; no committed _.xcodeproj CI/CD Bitrise Fastlane or equivalent automated build/test pipelines Static analysis SwiftLint Periphery or equivalent code quality gates
• Structured commit/PR discipline tied to a project tracker Linear Jira or equivalent)

• Experience with livestreaming real-time auctions or high-throughput WebSocket/subscription workloads
• Exposure to marketplace or e-commerce iOS applications
• Passion for sports cards collectibles or live commerce

The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

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