Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to launch, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

• Oversee, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by diagnosing and resolving complex issues.

• Standardize solutions for the entire team and streamline duplicate implementations.

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

• Drive improvements to team processes.

• Minimize manual interventions necessary for successful releases.

• Enhance underlying systems to avert recurring issues.

• Shift verification left by broadening automated checks.

• Manage planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Identify suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

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

• Address critical issues, manage feature releases, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers with meaningful projects and dedicated learning time.

• Write and review code while leading the Android core product team.

• Take part in several technical interviews and conduct assessments on a real codebase during the hiring process.

⛳️ 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.

• 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 processes.

• Comprehension of the significance of testing and methods for writing tests, including limitations.

• An example of a contribution you made to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest reflection on the effort required to achieve that.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of creating solutions that are utilized by your team, not just those that enhance your personal efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your individual contributions.

• An intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a passion for advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

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

• Strong communication skills.

• Engagement in numerous technical interviews and assessment on a real codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

• 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.