Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers by resolving issues that hinder progress.

• Identify reusable implementations and standardize them across the team.

• Maintain shared components through thorough testing, documentation, and consolidation.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Expand automated verification processes before nightly builds are delivered to QA.

• Facilitate planning and direct the team's focus on pending decisions.

• Establish appropriate levels of review and sign-off requirements.

• Engage in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

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

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

• Write, review, and take ownership of Android code while guiding the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience in leading a team or managing a significant feature 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.

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

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• An example of a change you implemented that persisted after your involvement ended, including an honest evaluation of the costs involved.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role, such as encouraging team members to alter their work habits and managing the resulting challenges.

• Insights into which modifications require extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that have been utilized by the team, not just enhancements that improved your own efficiency.

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

• An intuitive sense of product design, empathy for users, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus incentives.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.