Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Manage, enhance, and uphold reliability metrics for key functionalities.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Recognize and standardize solutions for broader team implementation.

• Maintain shared code through rigorous testing, clarity, and consolidation efforts.

• Implement improvements to team processes.

• Minimize the manual interventions necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Increase automated verification processes and shift verification earlier in the workflow.

• Facilitate planning sessions and concentrate the team's focus on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off protocols.

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

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including time leading a team or managing a significant feature 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.

• A strong understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that continued after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the efforts required to achieve that.

• Comfort in encouraging team members to alter their workflows and managing the resultant friction.

• A perspective on which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on the system's operations.

• Proven history of creating solutions that are actively utilized by your team.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a determination to elevate the Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivated to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

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

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities available.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office presence required.

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