Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android features from inception to launch, collaborating closely with Design.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by resolving technical challenges.

• Discover reusable solutions and promote their integration within the team.

• Ensure shared components are tested, clear, and well-organized.

• Spearhead modifications to team processes and operational methods.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for accurate releases.

• Enhance core systems to avert recurring issues.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks prior to QA.

• Facilitate planning sessions and focus the team on unresolved matters.

• Establish suitable review depths and necessary approvals.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering, conveying team limitations.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership roles or ownership of major projects while remaining hands-on.

• Proficiency 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 deploying and maintaining background audio or other long-duration background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and methods for writing them, including limitations.

• A successful contribution to a team that endured after your departure, along with a candid account of the effort involved.

• Comfort in encouraging others to alter their workflows and managing the ensuing challenges.

• Insight into which changes necessitate thorough reviews and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of building solutions that are actively utilized by the team.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• An instinct for product design, empathy for users, and a determination to elevate Android UI/UX beyond standard specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond defined expectations.

• Strong communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews and an evaluation on an actual codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links along with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• Remote work flexibility in a distributed environment.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.