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 release, 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.

• Remove obstacles for team members by investigating and resolving technical issues.

• Standardize successful implementations for broader team application.

• Maintain shared components to ensure they are tested, well-documented, and consolidated.

• Recognize when the team should adjust its workflows and lead those modifications.

• Minimize the manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Address recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification processes earlier by expanding automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions to ensure the team concentrates on decision-making work.

• Establish appropriate review levels and necessary sign-offs.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating team limitations proactively.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of significant projects while remaining actively involved.

• 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 processes.

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

• A successful implementation you introduced to a team that remained effective after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort in encouraging colleagues to modify their work practices and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of developing solutions that are actively utilized by your team.

• Ability to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents.

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and the ambition to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace