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.

• Maintain and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Review pull requests and offer meaningful feedback.

• Remove obstacles for the team by thoroughly investigating and resolving issues.

• Standardize effective implementations for use across the team.

• Maintain well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Drive changes to team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying systems.

• Move verification earlier in the process by increasing automated checks prior to QA.

• Lead planning sessions focused on work that necessitates decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering to highlight team constraints early on.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with tasks that encourage learning and allocate time for skill development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major component 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.

• Understanding the significance of tests and how to approach writing them, including limitations of coverage.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with a candid account of the effort required to achieve it.

• Some comfort with the less popular aspects of the job: encouraging colleagues to alter their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on the system’s functionality.

• A proven track record of developing solutions that your team genuinely utilized, beyond just enhancing your own efficiency.

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

• An intuitive sense for product design, empathy for users, and the motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications provided.

• A proactive attitude towards enhancing the application and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile are requested with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock