Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from conception to release in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Remove obstacles for engineers and resolve team challenges.

• Identify reusable implementations and set team-standard versions.

• Maintain thoroughly tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the manual involvement needed for successful releases.

• Address ongoing issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Advance automated verification processes and shift verification to earlier stages.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on work that necessitates decision-making.

• Define review prerequisites and required sign-offs.

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

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

• Assist early-career engineers with opportunities to learn.

• Write and review code while taking hands-on ownership of features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or taking 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 tasks.

• Understanding the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including elements that cannot be tested.

• Proven experience in implementing a team practice that persisted after the candidate stepped back.

• Comfortable in requesting changes in work habits from others and managing any resulting friction.

• Ability to discern which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not.

• A track record of creating solutions that are utilized by the rest of the team.

• Capability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition in product design, empathy for users, and a desire to enhance Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond set specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office.

• Streamlined interview process aimed for completion within one week.