Senior Android Engineer | Forge

This role is offered on an Italian employment contract. Candidates must be based in Italy as we are unable to support remote working from outside the country due to local employment and tax legislation.

Forge is Deltatre's publishing platform — used by major sports leagues including the NFL, MLB, NHL, UEFA, and MLS to control content, presentation, and customer experience across their digital ecosystems. The Android engineering team builds the mobile and connected-TV applications that deliver Forge-powered experiences to millions of users on Android phones, tablets, and TVs

.As a Senior Android Engineer, you will work end-to-end on user-facing features — from translating designs into production code to optimising performance across a wide range of devices and screen sizes. You will help shape the Android side of the platform, contribute to architectural decisions, and coordinate Android engineers across regions

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Responsibiliti

• esDevelop new user-facing features for Android using Kotlin and Ja
• vaBuild reusable components and libraries for future use across the platfo
• rmTranslate designs and wireframes into high-quality production co
• deOptimise components for performance across mobiles, tablets, and connected T
• VsAnalyse and simplify complex requirements to ensure efficient implementation; flag potential technical challenges to stakeholders ear
• lyCoordinate the work of Android engineers across regions and contribute to engineering standards and best practi

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Requireme

ntsYou produce work that others can build on. You take ownership of features from design to production, and you write code that holds up under real-world device and performance variability. You are credible on architectural decisions because you have made them before and seen them play o

ut.
Requ

• ired5+ years' relevant engineering experience, including a minimum of 2 years at Senior Android Engineer l
• evelDeep proficiency in Kotlin, with working command of
• JavaThorough understanding of the Android SDK and system framework
• APIsExperience with reactive programming using RxJava and its core princi
• plesDemonstrated unit-testing practice with JUnit and Moc
• kitoSolid grasp of mobile architectural patterns (MVC, MVVM, delegation, and simi
• lar)Familiarity with Google Play Services, Play Store account administration, and submis
• sionKnowledge of mobile debugging and optimisation techni
• quesComfortable with Git, build automation, and modern CI/CD prac
• ticeFluent written and spoken Eng
• lishExperience working with a global team or empl

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• aluedExperience with video playback in mobile or web applications; familiarity with video production, audio/video encoding, and transm
• uxingExperience creating frameworks or libraries embedded in other
• appsBasic knowledge of iOS or web programming platforms — useful for cross-platform co
• ntextKnowledge of, or interest in, cricket — useful for editorial judgement on what the audience v

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Who Thrive

s HereAndroid engineering at Deltatre runs at the intersection of consumer experience and platform scale. The apps you build are used by millions of viewers across markets and device generations, and the technical decisions you make echo across that surface. The work rewards engineers who care about the small details — animation smoothness, memory pressure, the moment when a stream buffers and the user makes a decision about the platform — and who can hold the longer-arc view of how the codebase evolves over multiple rel

eases.A good Senior Android Engineer at Deltatre tends to be honest about technical debt without being doom-laden, generous with knowledge transfer to less senior engineers, and curious about how cross-platform decisions interact — what works for the Android user, what works for iOS, what works for the platform as a

whole.
Process and what to

• expectIntroductory conversation: a step for us to get to know each other better, and for us to answer all questions you might have around De
• ltatre.Take-home assessment: a practical exercise you complete in your own time, designed to show us how you approach a real engineering problem. We will use it as the basis for the technical conver
• sation.1-hour Technical round of Interview: we will deep dive on your experience and on the take-home assessment, and explore the technical decisions you have made in your pas
• t work.1-hour Competency Based Interview: we will ask you situational questions around how you deal with real-life scenarios at work. Easier doing it, more than explain

ing it.If any of these formats would be difficult for you, tell us — we adjust regularly and can usually accom

modate.Accessibility and accommodation questions are welcome at any stage. Tell us what would work f