Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of major features from conception to release in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Write and review code while offering constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate any stalled tasks.

• Standardize successful implementations for team utilization.

• Maintain shared components to ensure they are tested, clear, and consolidated.

• Spearhead changes to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying the underlying setup.

• Shift verification earlier in the process by increasing automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on work that necessitates decision-making.

• Define suitable review levels and sign-off protocols.

• Engage in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering while raising team constraints early on.

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

• Ensure early-career engineers are assigned meaningful work and learning opportunities.

• Actively participate in coding while leading the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership or ownership of major features 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 tasks.

• Understanding the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including acknowledging what cannot be tested.

• Demonstrated contribution to a team that persisted beyond the candidate's involvement, with an honest assessment of its cost.

• Comfort in requesting changes in how others work and managing the resulting friction.

• Ability to discern which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system behavior.

• Proven track record of developing tools that the entire team utilizes, beyond just productivity aids.

• Capability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and motivation to enhance Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond established requirements.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is requested with the application.

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

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace

• Technical interview process completed within one week (as a noted process benefit)