Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant 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 to team members.

• Assist team members by resolving challenging issues.

• Identify successful implementations that should be adopted as team-wide standards and facilitate their integration.

• Maintain shared code and streamline duplicated implementations.

• Initiate changes to team processes as necessary.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during release processes.

• Address recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification earlier in the process by enhancing automated checks prior to QA.

• Organize planning sessions to ensure the team focuses on work that requires decision-making.

• Determine suitable review levels and necessary approvals.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating team constraints upfront.

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

• Provide mentorship to early-career engineers through manageable tasks and dedicated learning time.

• Actively participate in coding by writing and reviewing code while leading the Android Core Product team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of 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 extended background processes.

• An understanding of the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including limitations on what can be tested.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the efforts required to achieve this.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to change their working methods and managing the ensuing friction.

• A perspective on which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on the system’s functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team genuinely utilized, rather than just those that improved your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

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

• A self-driven attitude to enhance the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Links to a portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

• Participation in several technical interviews, along with an evaluation of a real codebase.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace