Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of major features from inception to deployment, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the decision-making and release processes.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Remove obstacles for engineers and explore technical challenges.

• Recognize and standardize solutions for utilization across the team.

• Oversee shared code components, focusing on testing, clarity, and consolidation.

• Propel changes in team processes.

• Minimize manual interventions necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Promote early verification and broaden automated testing.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and define approval responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, highlighting team constraints early.

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing meaningful work and dedicated learning time.

• Write code, review code, and actively manage features in a hands-on manner.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership experience or ownership of a major surface while remaining hands-on.

• Strong expertise in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

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

• Thorough understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including areas that cannot be covered.

• Experience in initiating processes or practices that have been adopted post-implementation.

• Comfortable with encouraging changes in workflow and managing any resulting friction.

• Skillful in assessing which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system behavior.

• Successful history of creating tools or features utilized by the broader team.

• Ability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Strong intuition for product design and user empathy.

• Self-motivated to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Excellent communication capabilities.

• Portfolio and LinkedIn links are requested during the application process.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Multiple technical interviews followed by an assessment on a real codebase.

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week.