Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Oversee, uphold, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers by diagnosing and resolving technical challenges.

• Recognize reusable solutions within the team and promote their implementation.

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

• Spearhead improvements to team processes and workflows.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by refining underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and necessary sign-offs.

• 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 through learning-centric tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Awareness of the significance of tests and methodologies for writing them, including limitations.

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

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the associated friction.

• Insight into which modifications necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of developing tools that your team utilizes, rather than solely those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The capacity to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, in addition to your personal approach.

• A strong sense of product design, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects (preferred).

• Background in iOS, Web, or NodeJS (preferred).

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace