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title: 'Engineering Manager, Mobile Platform at Fanatics Collectibles'
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# Engineering Manager, Mobile Platform at Fanatics Collectibles

- **Company:** Fanatics Collectibles
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $163k–$219k
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fanaticscollectibles/jobs/4426010009

## Job description

## About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

## About the Team

Fanatics Collect is a leading marketplace and platform for physical and digital collectibles, bringing together commerce, content, and community for collectors at massive scale. We are building high-quality, fan-first experiences and investing deeply in modern engineering, product, and design practices to support long-term growth.

## Role Summary

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Client Platform Team across iOS, Android, and Web for the Live and Collect apps. This role is responsible for people leadership, platform execution, operational excellence, and strong technical judgment across shared client infrastructure and engineering workflows.

The Client Platform Team owns shared client infrastructure, developer tooling, observability foundations, release systems, and cross-platform standards that enable product engineering teams to ship high-quality client experiences faster and more safely. Product engineering teams remain responsible for feature delivery and operational quality within their domains, while the platform team enables consistency, visibility, reliability, and scalable engineering practices across the organization.

This role partners closely with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, SRE/Infrastructure, and other cross-functional stakeholders to improve release reliability, client observability, developer productivity, and platform health across the Live and Collect ecosystem.

This role is expected to be technically engaged and hands-on with engineering workflows, architecture discussions, operational reviews, debugging, and development practices while remaining primarily focused on team leadership, execution, and organizational impact.

## Key Responsibilities

- 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 for the Client Platform Team
- 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 on planning, sequencing, and execution
- Partner with engineering leadership to prioritize platform reliability, developer productivity, observability, and modernization investments alongside product delivery commitments
- 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 that improve visibility into critical client experiences
- Partner with client engineering teams on shared architectural patterns, framework adoption, dependency health, and platform consistency
- Drive effective adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows, including development tooling, documentation, testing support, code review augmentation, and developer enablement best practices
- Remain technically engaged in architecture discussions, operational reviews, development workflows, and engineering quality practices while empowering engineers to own implementation details
- Support hiring, onboarding, team growth, and a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement

Platform Responsibilities and Operational Focus

The Client Platform Team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems, tooling, standards, dashboards, alerts, and operational workflows that improve release reliability, client observability, performance visibility, developer productivity, and platform health across iOS, Android, and Web applications.

The team partners closely with product engineering teams to identify issues, drive improvements, establish best practices, and support operational excellence across critical client experiences.

## Qualifications

Required

- 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

## Preferred

- 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

What Success Looks Like

- A healthy, engaged Client Platform Team with clear ownership and strong operating rhythms
- Measurable improvements in release reliability, client observability, developer workflows, and platform health
- Faster, safer delivery for Live and Collect app teams through improved tooling, release systems, shared libraries, and engineering workflows
- Reduced platform debt through better dependency health, framework/library currency, code quality, and maintainability
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, and operational partners
- Thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows that improve engineering effectiveness while maintaining accountability for quality and outcomes
- Engineers who feel supported, challenged, and clear on growth paths

Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud.  Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Feel free to ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of communication for interview, and ensure your communication is coming from a Fanatics email address (including @collectfanatics.com).  For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at [www.fanaticsinc.com/careers](http://www.fanaticsinc.com/careers) The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation.  This salary range is specific to Los Angeles and may not be applicable to other locations.  When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

Los Angeles Salary Range $162,720—$203,400 USD

The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation.  This salary range is specific to New York City and may not be applicable to other locations.  When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

NYC Salary Range $174,800—$218,500 USD

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Fanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Fanatics recruiting, please do not respond and report it here.

## About Fanatics Collectibles

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fanatics Collectibles is a leading licensee, producer, designer, and seller of physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and digital collectibles, operating as the collectibles division of global sports retail giant Fanatics Inc.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of private company Fanatics Inc.)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States (primary business roles); major operations also in Sunnyvale, TX and Tigard, OR [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collectibles)
- **Founded**: Division launched around 2021-2022 (parent company Fanatics Inc. founded 1995)
- **Founders**: Michael Rubin (founder of Fanatics Inc.); collectibles leadership team includes industry veterans

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Sports trading cards and collectibles (physical and digital manufacturing, marketplace, and livestream commerce)
- **Target customers**: B2C collectors, hobbyists, and investors; B2B partnerships with leagues, teams, and creators
- **Mission or purpose**: “Relentlessly focused on improving the collector experience and growing the hobby for the benefit of all” [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collectibles)

## Products & Services
- **[Fanatics Collect Marketplace](https://www.fanaticscollect.com/sell)**: An online marketplace for buying and selling trading cards, memorabilia, and collectibles, featuring vaulting, grading partnerships (PSA, CGC, SGC, Beckett), and consignment services.
- **[Fanatics Live](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collect)**: A livestream shopping app for live box breaks, creator-run events, and real-time card purchasing (launched summer 2024, acquired Voggt for European expansion).
- **Physical & Digital Trading Cards**: Licensed manufacturing of trading cards for MLB, NFL, NBA, and other leagues under brands like Topps and Panini (through exclusive league deals).
- **High-End Private Sales**: Partnership with Sotheby’s to sell cards valued at $100K+ [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collect).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Parent company Fanatics Inc. valued at approximately $31 billion (2024, per Forbes) – collectibles division share not separately disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Over 3.1 million total cards sold and 740,000 total collectors on Fanatics Collect platform [fanaticscollect.com](https://www.fanaticscollect.com/sell).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fanatics Inc. investors include Silver Lake, SoftBank, and Michael Rubin. Key partners: MLB, NFL, NBA, MLBPA, NFLPA, NBPA, Sotheby’s, and grading services PSA etc.
- **Growth Signals**: Exclusive long-term licensing with major U.S. sports leagues; launch of Fanatics Collect and Fanatics Live in 2024; acquisition of European livestream platform Voggt; expansion into high-end auctions via Sotheby’s; 170+ open jobs globally [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fanaticscollectibles).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Exclusive League Deals**: Holds exclusive rights to produce physical and digital trading cards for MLB, NFL, NBA (and related players associations), creating a near-monopoly on officially licensed cards.
- **Vertical Integration**: Controls design, manufacturing, marketplace, grading, vaulting, and livestream distribution, capturing value at every step.
- **Scale & Brand**: Backed by Fanatics’ global retail infrastructure, access to athletes, media partnerships, and a massive customer base.

## Strategic Focus
- **Digital Ecosystem**: Expanding from physical cards into digital collectibles, NFTs, and app-based marketplaces.
- **Livestream Commerce**: Scaling Fanatics Live (including international via Voggt) to replicate the social “breaking” experience.
- **International Growth**: Building presence in Europe (Paris, London, Frankfurt, Milan) and Asia (Shanghai, Hong Kong) with dedicated business roles.
- **Collector Experience**: Enhancing platform with AI-driven pricing (Card Ladder integration), instant payouts, and consignment convenience.

## Why Work Here
- **Dynamic Industry**: Work at the intersection of sports, pop culture, and technology with a company that “owns the conversation” in collectibles.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Rapidly expanding division with new products (live streaming, marketplace, international) and hundreds of open roles across engineering, product, marketing, operations, and more.
- **Global Presence**: Offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and operations hubs in Texas and Oregon; hybrid/office policies vary by role.
- **Culture**: Described as having a “world-class executive team” focused on innovation and operational excellence [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collectibles).
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work directly with major sports leagues, athletes, and cutting edge live-commerce tech; roles in data analytics, software engineering, supply chain, and creative.

## Sources
1. [Fanatics Inc. – Fanatics Collectibles](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collectibles)
2. [Fanatics Inc. – Fanatics Collect](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-collect)
3. [Fanatics Collect – Sell/Consign](https://www.fanaticscollect.com/sell)
4. [Fanatics Collectibles Careers – Greenhouse](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fanaticscollectibles)
5. [Fanatics Collectibles Job Listings (171 jobs)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fanaticscollectibles/jobs/4208219009)

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