Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for the entire team to utilize.

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

• Drive improvements to team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues through foundational system modifications.

• Shift verification processes left by increasing automated checks prior to QA.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on outstanding decisions.

• Establish review criteria and necessary approvals.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with suitably challenging tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a significant 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 processes.

• Understanding the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations of test coverage.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that endured after your involvement ceased, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve that.

• Some comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: persuading individuals to alter their work habits and managing the ensuing friction.

• Insight on which changes require extensive review and which do not, supported by the system's functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that your team genuinely utilized, not only those that enhanced your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents, beyond your personal engagement.

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

• A self-motivated approach to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Strong communication skills.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is required with the 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