Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take 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.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable implementations across the team.

• Ensure shared components are tested, well-documented, and consolidated.

• Drive improvements in team processes and methodologies.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Promote early verification by expanding automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions and direct team focus on unresolved tasks.

• Establish appropriate levels for reviews and sign-off processes.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering meaningful projects and dedicated learning time.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership experience or ownership of significant surfaces 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 tests.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and approaches to writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that remained effective after your direct involvement ceased, along with an honest account of the costs associated with implementation.

• Comfort in addressing the less popular aspects of the job: encouraging changes in work methods and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of creating solutions that are actively used by your team, rather than solely enhancing your own efficiency.

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

• An intuitive understanding of product design, user empathy, and the motivation to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-driven approach to improving the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Successful completion of several technical interviews, along with an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.