Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Engage in coding, code reviews, and hands-on ownership of features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by removing obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable implementations throughout the team.

• Ensure that shared components are tested, clear, and well-consolidated.

• Drive improvements in team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during correct releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing the underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks.

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

• Establish review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

• Take part in discussions involving Product, Design, and Engineering.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering impactful work and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant project while remaining actively involved.

• 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 launching and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• Recognition of the critical role of tests and strategies for writing them, including understanding limitations.

• Proven experience in implementing sustainable improvements for the team.

• Comfort in asking team members to adapt their work methods and managing any resulting challenges.

• Ability to discern which changes require thorough reviews and which do not.

• A history of developing solutions that the team actively utilizes.

• Capability to articulate the team's interaction with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX beyond the basic requirements.

• Initiative to enhance the application and codebase beyond specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Experience with open-source Android projects is advantageous.

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive work environment

• Multiple technical interviews along with an assessment of a real codebase, with the goal of completing the process within one week