Team Lead, Android Core Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant features from inception to launch, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

• Manage, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and deliver constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by troubleshooting technical challenges.

• Standardize solutions within the team and streamline redundant implementations.

• Ensure shared components are thoroughly tested, clear, and reusable.

• Propel changes in team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual interventions to ensure accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by refining the underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes to the left by enhancing automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions and guide team focus on unresolved decisions.

• Establish suitable review levels and necessary sign-offs.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and ensure nightly builds are available for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of major projects while remaining hands-on.

• Proficient in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit testing frameworks.

• Proven experience in deploying and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background processes.

• Acknowledgment of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• An example of a contribution to a team that continued after your involvement, along with a candid account of the costs incurred to achieve that outcome.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging behavioral changes in colleagues and managing the resultant friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that have been actively utilized by the team, rather than solely those that improved your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

• Strong intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Outstanding communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment of a real codebase.

• Links to portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.