Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers by resolving technical challenges to eliminate obstacles.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

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

• Drive improvements in team processes.

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

• Address persistent issues through fundamental system modifications.

• Shift verification processes earlier by broadening automated checks.

• Oversee planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Determine suitable review levels and approval processes.

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

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

• Support early-career engineers by assigning appropriately challenging tasks and allowing time for learning.

• Actively participate by writing and reviewing code while leading the Android core product team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of 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 forms of long-running background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations of coverage.

• A notable contribution you made to a team that endured after your involvement ended, along with a candid account of the effort required to achieve that.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in workflows and managing the ensuing friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team actively utilizes, rather than merely those that enhance your own productivity.

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

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and the motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive mindset to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace