Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving obstacles.

• Recognize reusable team solutions and promote their implementation.

• Ensure shared components are tested, well-defined, and consolidated.

• Propel enhancements to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification earlier in the process by increasing automated checks.

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

• Define review criteria and sign-off procedures.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, effectively communicating team limitations.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing them with meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including a leadership role or significant ownership of a major surface 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.

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

• A solid understanding of the importance of testing and strategies for writing tests, including limitations.

• An example of an initiative you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest assessment of the costs incurred to achieve that.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: persuading colleagues to alter their work habits and managing the ensuing friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that are genuinely utilized by your team, rather than solely those that enhance your own efficiency.

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

• An intuitive grasp of product design, user empathy, and the ambition to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive attitude towards enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (Bonus).

• Participation in several technical interviews, along with an evaluation based on a real codebase.

• Please provide links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Multiple technical interviews and an assessment on a real codebase.

• Aiming to complete the interview process within one week.