Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from conception through to release, collaborating closely with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist team members by investigating and resolving technical impediments.

• Recognize reusable solutions and streamline duplicated implementations.

• Ensure shared components are tested, clear, and reusable.

• Drive improvements in team processes and workflows.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure correct releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification processes earlier by increasing automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions to keep the team's focus on decisions needed for ongoing work.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions among Product, Design, and Engineering, raising team constraints promptly.

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

• Provide meaningful work and learning opportunities for early-career engineers.

• Write and review code while taking a hands-on approach to feature ownership.

• Partake in multiple technical interviews and complete an assessment involving a real codebase during the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or managing 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.

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

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

• An experience where you introduced a concept to a team that persisted after you ceased advocating for it, along with an honest account of the effort involved.

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

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

• A proven history of developing tools and features that your team actively utilized, not solely those that improved your own speed.

• The capability to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents, beyond just your personal methods.

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and the ambition to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects (bonus).

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus).

• Candidates must provide portfolio and LinkedIn links when applying.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace