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 deployment, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Conduct reviews of pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by investigating and resolving stalled tasks.

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

• Maintain shared components through testing, clarity, and consolidation efforts.

• Spearhead improvements to team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification earlier in the process and broaden automated checks prior to QA.

• Facilitate planning sessions and direct the team's focus on unresolved tasks.

• Establish appropriate review standards and necessary sign-offs.

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

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

• Provide mentorship and learning opportunities for early-career engineers.

• Write and review code while actively owning features.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major surface while maintaining hands-on involvement.

• 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 long-running background processes.

• Strong understanding of the significance of tests and approaches to writing them, including limitations.

• An example of a contribution you made to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest account of the effort it required.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspect of the role: persuading colleagues to change their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven track record of delivering solutions that your team actively utilized, not just those that improved your own efficiency.

• The capacity to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, in addition to your personal contributions.

• An intuitive sense of product design, user empathy, and the ambition to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specified requirements.

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

• Exceptional 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 and an assessment on a real codebase.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock