Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from conception to deployment, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming technical challenges and obstacles.

• Identify and standardize reusable solutions for the team.

• Maintain thoroughly tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Spearhead changes to team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Enhance automated verification and integrate testing earlier in the development lifecycle.

• Oversee planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and approval workflows.

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

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for QA.

• Provide support to early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and development time.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including experience in leading a team or managing a significant project 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.

• Strong understanding of the significance of tests and how to approach writing them, including aspects that may not be testable.

• A noteworthy contribution you made to a team that persisted even after you stepped back, along with a candid reflection on the costs involved in achieving it.

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

• An understanding of which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that your team utilized, not just those that improved your own efficiency.

• The ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not solely how you work individually.

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

• A self-motivated approach to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is detailed in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn profile links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace