Engineering Manager, Mobile Platform

The role

This Engineering Manager will lead the Client Platform Team across iOS, Android, and Web for the Live and Collect apps. The role focuses on people leadership, platform execution, and improving shared client infrastructure and engineering workflows.

What you will do

• 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
• 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
• Partner with engineering leadership to prioritize platform reliability, developer productivity, observability, and modernization investments
• 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
• Partner with client engineering teams on shared architectural patterns, framework adoption, dependency health, and platform consistency
• Drive effective adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows

Required 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

Nice to have

• 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

About the company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. Fanatics Collect is a leading marketplace and platform for physical and digital collectibles.