Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the reliability metrics of key features.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback to enhance development.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and resolving implementation challenges.

• Identify reusable solutions within the team and streamline duplicate implementations.

• Ensure the maintenance of well-tested, clear, and unified shared components.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Shift verification processes to the left and broaden the scope of automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focusing on outstanding decisions.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off protocols.

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

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and development opportunities.

• Write and review code while leading the Android core product team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, with experience in team leadership or ownership of significant projects while remaining hands-on.

• Expertise in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other types of long-running background tasks.

• Strong understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations that can't be covered.

• An example of a practice you implemented in a team that continued after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve this.

• Comfort in encouraging team members to adapt their workflows and managing any resulting challenges.

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

• A solid history of developing solutions that are actively utilized by the rest of the team.

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

• Intuition in product design, empathy for users, and motivation to enhance Android UI/UX beyond basic requirements.

• A proactive approach to improving the app and codebase beyond the initial specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews plus an evaluation on a real codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace