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, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by troubleshooting and resolving technical obstacles.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

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

• Drive changes to team processes.

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

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Promote early verification by increasing automated checks.

• Facilitate planning to ensure the team's focus on work that requires decision-making.

• Determine the appropriate levels of review and necessary approvals.

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

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

• Offer learning opportunities to early-career engineers.

• Write code, review code, and actively take ownership of features.

• Complete technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment as part of the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• A successful initiative you introduced to a team that remained after you ceased promoting it, with an honest account of the costs involved in achieving it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in others' workflows and managing the ensuing friction.

• A perspective on which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of building tools that your team has actively utilized, rather than solely those that enhanced your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

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

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is detailed in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Include links to a portfolio and LinkedIn in your application.

• 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