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, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Assess pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist the team by identifying and resolving obstacles.

• Standardize shared solutions and eliminate redundant implementations.

• Ensure shared components remain tested, organized, and maintainable.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Expand automated verification processes and advocate for early verification.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on work that requires decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and approval requirements.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering, and proactively identify team constraints.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers with impactful projects and dedicated learning time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, 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 managing other long-running background tasks.

• Awareness of the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including limitations.

• A successful initiative you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort required.

• Comfort in encouraging changes in work practices and managing the resulting friction.

• An understanding of which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that are actively utilized by your team.

• The capability to explain how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• An instinct for product design, user empathy, and the ambition to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive approach to improving the application and codebase beyond the outlined requirements.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace