Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Help team members overcome obstacles by investigating stalled tasks.

• Standardize reusable solutions within the team.

• Ensure shared components are tested, clear, and consolidated.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

• Minimize the manual work required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing underlying systems.

• Increase automated verification and shift testing earlier in the process.

• Oversee planning and prioritize tasks that necessitate decision-making.

• Define suitable review levels and sign-off protocols.

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

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

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

• Write and review code actively while owning features hands-on.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience in leading a team or owning a major project while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

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

• A change you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the resources required to achieve it.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to alter their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

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

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

• The capacity to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

• Intuition in product design, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated drive to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is outlined in the specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace