Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Manage, enhance, and ensure the reliability metrics of essential features.

• Conduct pull request reviews and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate technical hurdles.

• Identify solutions that can be reused by the team and promote their implementation.

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

• Lead improvements to team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure correct releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying setup.

• Advance verification processes by implementing more extensive automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions and focus the team’s attention on tasks that are yet to be decided.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off stages.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams while conveying team constraints.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-focused projects and development time.

• Write and review code, actively participating in feature ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of major projects 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 processes.

• Knowledge of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations on what can be tested.

• An example of a change you implemented that persisted after your departure, along with an honest assessment of the effort involved.

• Comfort in requesting changes in colleagues' work practices and accepting the ensuing challenges.

• Insight into which modifications require in-depth review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• Proven ability to build solutions that are genuinely utilized by the team.

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

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and a desire to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivated to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

• Expect several technical interviews and an assessment on a real codebase.

• Bonus: experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

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

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week.