Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of major features from inception through to release in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Conduct pull request reviews and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate any stalled tasks.

• Streamline shared implementations and create standardized team-wide versions.

• Ensure the availability of tested, clear, and reusable shared components.

• Lead initiatives to refine team processes.

• Minimize manual interventions necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Enhance automated verification processes and shift testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Oversee planning and prioritize tasks that require critical decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off criteria.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing learning opportunities.

• Write code, review code, and actively participate in feature ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a significant feature 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.

• Comprehensive understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that may not be testable.

• An example of a change you implemented that persisted after your influence waned, along with an honest evaluation of the effort involved.

• Comfort in encouraging changes in team practices and navigating the resulting challenges.

• Insight into which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that your team found practical and beneficial.

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

• A strong sense of product design, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined requirements.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

• Experience with open source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is considered a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

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

• An interview process designed to be completed within one week.