Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android core product features from inception to release, collaborating closely with Design throughout the process.

• Manage, maintain, and enhance reliability metrics for crucial features.

• Write code, conduct pull request reviews, and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by investigating and resolving technical challenges.

• Streamline shared implementations and ensure that shared components are thoroughly tested and maintainable.

• Drive improvements in team processes and working methodologies.

• Minimize the manual effort required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing the foundational setup.

• Move verification earlier in the process and broaden automated testing.

• Conduct planning sessions and direct team focus on pending decisions.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off procedures.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering and advocate for team constraints.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of 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 prolonged background processes.

• Recognize the significance of testing and how to approach writing tests, including understanding what cannot be tested.

• An example of a change you introduced that was sustained after your departure, along with an honest evaluation of the effort involved.

• Comfort in requesting changes in workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• Ability to discern which modifications require extensive review and which do not.

• Proven record of creating solutions that the entire team utilizes.

• Capability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and motivation to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the initial specifications.

• Self-motivation to advance the app and codebase beyond basic requirements.

• Strong communication skills.

• Links to portfolio and LinkedIn are requested.

• Experience in open-source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is considered a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office.

• Multiple technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• The interview process is designed to be completed within one week.