Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of major features from conception to release, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

• Oversee, maintain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Review code submissions and offer constructive feedback to team members.

• Help team members overcome technical challenges by investigating issues.

• Standardize reusable solutions across the team to enhance efficiency.

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

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes left by broadening automated checks.

• Organize planning sessions and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Define review criteria and sign-off procedures.

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

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers through impactful work and learning experiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of significant 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 testing.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other lengthy background processes.

• Understanding the significance of tests and the methodology for writing them, including limitations of test coverage.

• An instance of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your departure, along with a candid account of the effort involved.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in workflow and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A proven record of building solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than solely those that improved your own efficiency.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

• Intuition for product design, a strong sense of user empathy, and the motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond standard specifications.

• Initiative to enhance the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace environment.