Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 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 developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by diagnosing and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable implementations across the team.

• Ensure shared code is tested, clear, well-maintained, and consolidated.

• Propel enhancements to team processes and workflows.

• Minimize manual interventions necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying setup.

• Increase automated verification prior to nightly builds reaching QA.

• Conduct planning and prioritize tasks requiring decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and determine approval ownership.

• Engage in discussions involving Product, Design, and Engineering.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with learning-focused tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a significant feature while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency 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 operations.

• Acknowledgment of the importance of tests and strategies for writing them, including recognizing areas that cannot be covered.

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

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging team members to alter their work habits and managing the subsequent friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than solely those that improved your own efficiency.

• 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 advance Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Successful completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links when applying.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.