Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Help engineers overcome obstacles and investigate any stalled tasks.

• Recognize reusable implementations and standardize them across the team.

• Ensure shared components are thoroughly tested, clear, and consolidated.

• Drive improvements to team processes and methods of operation.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying the underlying setup.

• Shift verification processes earlier and broaden automated checks prior to QA.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on work that requires decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering to highlight team constraints early on.

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

• Assist early-career engineers with development tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a key surface while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency 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.

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

• An example of a successful initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve that.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to alter their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team actively uses, rather than just those that expedited your work.

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

• A strong sense of product design, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond standard specifications.

• A self-motivated drive to enhance the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Outstanding communication skills.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is requested with the application.

• 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