Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from conception 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 team members by removing obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable solutions throughout the team.

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

• Propose enhancements to team workflows.

• Minimize manual interventions necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues at the underlying system level.

• Broaden automated verification and implement early testing.

• Conduct planning sessions centered on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and approval workflows.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience leading a team or managing a significant project while remaining hands-on.

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

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

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

• An example of a contribution to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort in addressing the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which alterations warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of creating solutions that your team actively utilizes, rather than only those that enhance your own efficiency.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your personal approach.

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Outstanding communication abilities.

• Completion of multiple technical interviews and an evaluation based on a real codebase.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.