Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to launch, 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 to team members.

• Assist team members in overcoming technical challenges and obstacles.

• Identify and standardize reusable solutions within the team.

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

• Drive improvements in team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing foundational systems.

• Shift verification to the left and increase the number of automated checks prior to QA.

• Facilitate planning sessions to direct the team's focus toward work that demands decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and define approval responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering while conveying team constraints.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and development opportunities.

• Actively participate in coding and code reviews while leading the Android core product team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership experience or ownership of significant projects 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-running background tasks.

• Understanding the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including their limitations.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest reflection on the cost of implementation.

• Comfort in navigating the less popular aspects of the role, such as encouraging team members to change their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of creating tools or features that benefited the team as a whole, rather than solely enhancing personal efficiency.

• The capability to explain how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your individual practices.

• A strong sense of product design, user empathy, and the motivation to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specified requirements.

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

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews, along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock