Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of major features from inception through to release in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by investigating ongoing issues to remove obstacles.

• Identify reusable solutions within the team and promote their implementation.

• Ensure the maintenance of tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Champion modifications to team workflows.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by altering foundational systems.

• Enhance verification processes by increasing automated testing.

• Facilitate planning sessions centered around decision-making work.

• Establish appropriate review protocols and sign-off criteria.

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

• Manage critical incidents, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for quality assurance.

• Guide early-career engineers by offering suitable learning opportunities.

• Write and review code while taking direct ownership of features.

• Collaborate with a globally distributed team focused on developing text-to-speech products.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of significant projects 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 supporting background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

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

• An example of a practice introduced to a team that remained after the candidate's departure, with a candid account of its impact.

• Comfort in requesting changes in workflows and managing any resulting friction.

• Capability to discern which modifications necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system behavior.

• Proven history of creating solutions that are actively utilized by the team.

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

• Strong product design intuition, empathy for users, and a drive to elevate Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Initiative to enhance the application and codebase beyond set specifications.

• Outstanding communication abilities.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn profile with the application.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.

• Multiple technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase, aiming to complete the process within one week.