Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to launch in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers by investigating and resolving any obstacles they encounter.

• Identify and standardize reusable solutions for the team.

• Maintain shared components through rigorous testing, documentation, and consolidation efforts.

• Drive improvements to team processes.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational systems.

• Shift verification processes to earlier stages and broaden automated testing.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on outstanding decisions.

• Establish suitable review levels and approval criteria.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering learning-centered work and dedicated time.

• Write, review, and take ownership of Android code while guiding team best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of significant projects 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 types of long-running background tasks.

• Knowledge of the significance of testing and approaches to writing tests, including limitations.

• An example of a change you introduced to a team that remained effective after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the cost to achieve that outcome.

• Some comfort in encouraging changes in work habits and navigating the resulting friction.

• An understanding of which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, supported by system functionality.

• A proven history of building solutions that are actively utilized by the team.

• Ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• Strong intuition in product design, user empathy, and a passion for advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated drive to enhance the app and codebase beyond the initial specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• A portfolio and LinkedIn profile links are requested with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock