Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from conception to release, collaborating closely with the Design team.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist team members by resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for the entire team to utilize.

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

• Lead improvements in team processes.

• Minimize manual interventions required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying systems.

• Increase automated verification and move testing earlier within the development cycle.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on work that requires decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and oversee approval responsibilities.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing meaningful learning experiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or managing a major project 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 testing.

• Experience in delivering and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

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

• Proven experience in establishing a team practice that continued after initial adoption.

• Comfort in encouraging changes in work practices and managing any resulting friction.

• Capability to identify which changes require extensive review and which do not.

• History of developing solutions that the team has utilized.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond initial specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Submission of a 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.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace

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