Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant features, collaborating closely with the design team from concept to launch.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate ongoing issues.

• Standardize reusable solutions for the team and maintain shared components.

• Enhance team processes and identify when adjustments to working methods are necessary.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Address recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes earlier and broaden automated checks.

• Facilitate planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and approval workflows.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing learning opportunities.

• Write, review, and actively contribute to Android code.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of major features 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 may not be testable.

• An example of an initiative you implemented within a team that continued after your involvement ceased, along with an honest assessment of what it took to achieve that.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the subsequent friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes require thorough review and which do not, based on the function of the system.

• A proven history of building solutions that your team actively utilized, not just those that enhanced your own efficiency.

• The ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond just your personal experience.

• A sense of product design, user empathy, and the motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

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

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

• 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