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, enhance, and uphold reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive educational feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming technical challenges by investigating and resolving issues.

• Recognize reusable solutions within the team and merge redundant implementations.

• Ensure shared components are thoroughly tested, well-organized, maintained, and consolidated.

• Drive improvements in team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize manual interventions needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Promote early verification through enhanced automated testing.

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

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating team limitations proactively.

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers with substantial tasks and dedicated learning opportunities.

• Write code, review contributions, and oversee individual features while guiding the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including leadership experience or ownership of significant surfaces while remaining hands-on.

• Strong expertise in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit testing.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-duration tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of testing and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• An example of a process or tool you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid account of the cost of implementation.

• Comfort with the challenging aspects of the role, such as prompting changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which modifications require extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A record of creating solutions that are genuinely utilized by your team, not just those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents, rather than just your personal experience.

• An instinct for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhance the application and codebase beyond the defined requirements.

• Strong communication skills.

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

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus).

• Completion of multiple technical interviews along with an assessment of a real codebase.

• Submission of links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace