Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant Android features, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the release process.

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

• Conduct reviews of pull requests and offer developmental insights.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles by investigating ongoing issues.

• Recognize reusable implementations and promote their adoption across the team.

• Ensure the maintenance of well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Spearhead changes to team processes and operational methods.

• Minimize the manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and advance testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Lead planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and approval milestones.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with learning-centric tasks and development time.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• 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 processes.

• Strong understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that cannot be tested.

• Experience in implementing a practice or system that continued to be utilized post-implementation.

• Comfort in requesting changes in work practices and managing any resulting friction.

• Ability to discern which changes require extensive review and which can proceed with minimal oversight, based on system behavior.

• Demonstrated history of creating solutions used by the broader team.

• Capability to articulate how the team integrates AI agents into its workflow.

• Strong product design intuition and user empathy.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond initial specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

• Experience with open source Android projects, or familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a plus, but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Multiple technical interviews plus an evaluation on an actual codebase.

• Interview process designed for completion within one week.