Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android features from inception to release, collaborating closely with Design.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by diagnosing and resolving technical challenges.

• Integrate successful implementations into collective team solutions.

• Maintain well-tested, clear, and reusable shared components.

• Enhance team workflows and determine when to modify working methods.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions centered on unresolved decisions.

• Establish suitable review levels and necessary approvals.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams while conveying team limitations.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major surface 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 prolonged background tasks.

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

• Proven experience in introducing processes or practices that the team continues to adopt.

• Comfort in encouraging changes in how others work and managing any resulting friction.

• Capability to identify which changes require extensive review and which do not.

• History of developing solutions that the team actively utilizes.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a desire to enhance Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Self-motivation to advance the app and codebase beyond the defined specifications.

• Outstanding communication skills.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is required with the application.

• Participation in several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Experience with open source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is considered a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully distributed work environment.

• Flexible remote work without a physical office.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.