Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take complete ownership of significant features, collaborating closely with the design team from concept to launch.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members by directly addressing obstacles they encounter.

• Standardize effective implementations for collective use across the team.

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

• Recognize when the team should adapt its working methods.

• Minimize the manual input needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Advance verification processes by expanding automated checks prior to nightly QA builds.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions involving Product, Design, and Engineering, and proactively highlight team constraints.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing them with meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant surface 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.

• Experience in deploying and maintaining background audio or other long-term background tasks.

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• An example of a process you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, including a candid account of the effort required to achieve it.

• A willingness to confront the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, supported by an understanding of system functionality.

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

• The capability to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

• A strong intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to elevating Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• A self-motivated attitude towards enhancing the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (a plus).

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock