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 in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles by investigating stalled tasks.

• Advocate for successful individual implementations to set team standards.

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

• Initiate updates to team processes as required.

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

• Resolve recurring issues through fundamental setup changes.

• Increase automated verification prior to nightly QA builds.

• Lead planning efforts that focus on work requiring decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off protocols.

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

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

• Guide early-career engineers through appropriately challenging assignments.

• Write and review code while actively managing features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of significant projects 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 shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including identifying areas that cannot be tested.

• Proven experience in implementing sustainable team practices.

• Ability to encourage changes in work habits and manage any resultant friction.

• Skill in discerning which changes necessitate thorough reviews and which do not.

• History of creating solutions that are utilized by the broader team.

• Capability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and Android UI/UX expertise.

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

• Excellent communication abilities.

• Links to portfolio and LinkedIn are requested.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace