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 release in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback for educational purposes.

• Assist engineers in overcoming technical obstacles.

• Streamline duplicated implementations into cohesive team solutions.

• Ensure that shared code is thoroughly tested, clear, well-maintained, and unified.

• Lead modifications to team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the manual interventions necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Promote early verification through increased automated testing.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Define review criteria and approval procedures.

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

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers with opportunities for learning and development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major 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 prolonged background processes.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including what cannot be covered.

• An example of a successful initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ceased, along with an honest account of the effort required.

• Comfort in encouraging colleagues to adapt their work methods and managing the ensuing challenges.

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

• Proven history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized.

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

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is outlined in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Contributions to open source Android projects and experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS are advantageous but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office.

• Multiple technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week.