Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by investigating and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

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

• Drive changes to team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and integrate testing earlier in the development lifecycle.

• Conduct planning sessions and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Define review criteria and ownership for approvals.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with appropriate tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of a significant component 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 long-duration background tasks.

• Understanding the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• Proven experience in implementing practices or changes that have been adopted by the team.

• Ability to encourage colleagues to adapt their work methods while managing any resulting challenges.

• Capable of discerning which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not.

• History of creating solutions utilized by the broader team.

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

• Strong intuition for product design, user empathy, and a desire to enhance Android UI/UX.

• Self-motivation to improve the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Successful completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Submission of links to portfolio and LinkedIn is required.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully distributed work environment.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.