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 deployment, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and deliver constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by directly investigating and resolving issues.

• Standardize team solutions and streamline duplicated implementations.

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

• Recognize when the team needs to adjust its workflow.

• Minimize the manual effort required for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying the underlying setup.

• Promote early verification and broaden automated checks.

• Facilitate planning to ensure the team's focus is on tasks requiring decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and necessary sign-offs.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering learnable tasks and ample learning time.

• Write code, review code, and actively manage features.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on team leadership or owning a significant surface while remaining hands-on.

• Proficient 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 prolonged background tasks.

• Knowledge of the significance of tests and the methodology for writing them, including understanding limitations.

• A successful initiative you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the costs incurred to achieve it.

• A degree of comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to alter their work methods and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate rigorous review and which do not, supported by an understanding of system functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than solely those that enhanced your own efficiency.

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

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

• A self-driven approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Strong communication abilities.

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

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus).

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

• Portfolio and LinkedIn links.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace