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, maintain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members by resolving stalled tasks.

• Identify reusable implementations and standardize them within the team.

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

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying the underlying infrastructure.

• Shift verification left by broadening automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions and direct the team's focus on outstanding decisions.

• Define review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-centric tasks and development time.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major surface while remaining hands-on.

• Strong expertise 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-duration background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that cannot be covered by tests.

• A successful initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest reflection on the effort it took to achieve that.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspect of the role: encouraging people to alter their work habits and managing the ensuing friction.

• A perspective on which changes warrant in-depth review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team actively utilized, not just those that enhanced your own efficiency.

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

• An intuitive understanding of product design, user empathy, and a commitment to elevating Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond what is defined in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Experience with open source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is considered a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace

• The technical interview process is designed to be completed within one week.