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 deployment, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist team members by resolving obstacles that hinder progress.

• Standardize reusable solutions within the team.

• Ensure shared components are well-tested, clear, and streamlined.

• Recognize when the team should adapt its workflows.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Increase automated verification and shift verification processes earlier in the development cycle.

• Facilitate planning sessions and direct the team's focus on outstanding decisions.

• Establish review criteria and mandatory sign-offs.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering.

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

• Mentor early-career team members by providing learning opportunities.

• Write and review code while maintaining hands-on ownership of features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major product 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 long-running background processes.

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

• A notable contribution you made to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve this.

• Some familiarity with persuading others to alter their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, based on the functionality of the system.

• A proven history of creating tools or features that are actively utilized by the team.

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

• An intuitive sense for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the initial specifications.

• Proactive approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.