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, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers by diagnosing and resolving obstacles they encounter.

• Recognize reusable solutions and standardize them across the team.

• Oversee shared components through testing, documentation, and consolidation efforts.

• Champion improvements to team processes.

• Minimize the manual interventions needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing the foundational systems.

• Shift verification processes to the left and broaden automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on outstanding decisions.

• Establish suitable review requirements and sign-off procedures.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating team constraints proactively.

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

• Ensure that early-career engineers are assigned growth-oriented tasks and dedicated learning time.

• Write code, review code, and take a hands-on approach to feature ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• A solid understanding of the importance of tests and the approach to writing them, including aspects that cannot be covered by testing.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ceased, along with an honest account of the costs incurred to achieve that.

• Comfort in asking others to adapt their work methods, and the ability to manage the resulting friction.

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

• A proven record of building tools that your team actively utilized, not just those that increased your own efficiency.

• The capability to explain how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

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

• A self-driven attitude towards enhancing the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links along with the application.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock options.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Multiple technical interviews plus an evaluation on a real codebase.

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week.