Team Lead, Android Core Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant 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 removing obstacles and resolving team challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the entire team.

• Maintain well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Lead improvements to team processes.

• Minimize the manual interventions needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by implementing fundamental system changes.

• Shift verification processes to earlier stages and enhance automated checks.

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

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off criteria.

• 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 by offering valuable learning experiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, with a background in leading a team or managing a significant project while maintaining hands-on involvement.

• Proficient in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit testing.

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

• Strong understanding of the importance of tests and a clear strategy for writing them, including awareness of limitations.

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

• Comfort with encouraging changes in team workflows and managing any resulting friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of building solutions that are actively utilized by your team.

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

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

• Self-motivation to enhance both the application and codebase beyond the initial specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects is a plus.

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace