Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Manage, uphold, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive educational feedback

• Assist engineers in overcoming challenging issues by conducting thorough investigations

• Recognize and standardize solutions across the team

• Maintain shared code to ensure it remains tested, clear, and well-organized

• Propel modifications to team processes

• Minimize the necessity for manual intervention to ensure accurate releases

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying fundamental systems

• Shift verification processes earlier in development and enhance automated checks

• Lead planning sessions and prioritize tasks that involve decision-making

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off criteria

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA

• Support early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and dedicated development time

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant surface 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 prolonged background tasks

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations

• An example of a change you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with a candid evaluation of the effort required to achieve this

• Some level of comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging others to alter their work habits and managing the resulting friction

• Insight on which changes require extensive review and which do not, justified by the system’s functionality

• A proven history of creating tools and features that your team actively utilized, rather than solely those that improved your own speed

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your personal contributions

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and the motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is specified

• Outstanding communication abilities

• Successful completion of several technical interviews, along with an evaluation of work on a real codebase

• Links to portfolio and LinkedIn

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace