Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception through to release, collaborating closely with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving technical challenges.

• Discover and consolidate solutions for use across the team.

• Ensure shared components are tested, clearly defined, and reusable.

• Spearhead modifications to team processes.

• Minimize the manual effort needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by transforming underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and advance testing earlier within the development lifecycle.

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

• Establish review levels and necessary approvals.

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

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

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

• Write, review, and take hands-on ownership of code and features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of significant projects 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 tests.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-duration background tasks.

• Appreciation for the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including their limitations.

• An example of an initiative you implemented that became a lasting practice within the team, along with a candid reflection on the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with prompting colleagues to alter their workflows and manage any resulting friction.

• Insight into which modifications require thorough review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• Proven history of creating tools or features that are actively utilized by your team.

• Ability to articulate your team’s interaction with AI agents.

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and a commitment to elevating Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is outlined in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Participation in multiple technical interviews and an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace