Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist team members by resolving technical obstacles.

• Standardize reusable solutions within the team.

• Maintain clear, tested, and consolidated shared components.

• Drive enhancements to team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during correct releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying systems.

• Expand automated verification and promote early testing in the development cycle.

• Lead planning sessions focused on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and define approval responsibilities.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering learning opportunities.

• Write, review, and actively own code for features.

• Participate in multiple technical interviews and assess real codebases during the recruitment process.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proficient 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-running background tasks.

• A clear understanding of the significance of tests and approaches to writing them, including limitations.

• An example of a contribution that was adopted by the team after you ceased promoting it, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort in addressing the more challenging aspects of the role, such as encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, justified by the system's functionality.

• A proven history of building solutions that are utilized by the team, not merely those that enhance personal efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond just your individual contributions.

• An intuitive grasp of product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the initial specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the application and codebase beyond what is stated in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace