Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Resolve technical obstacles to assist team members effectively.

• Recognize and standardize reusable solutions within the team.

• Manage shared components through thorough testing, documentation, and consolidation efforts.

• Promote enhancements to team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and advance testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Conduct planning sessions to prioritize work that necessitates decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off protocols.

• Engage in discussions involving Product, Design, and Engineering, representing team constraints.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in software engineering, with experience leading a team or managing a significant 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 applications that utilize background audio or other long-running background processes.

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that cannot be covered.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to your team that sustained after your involvement, along with a candid account of the challenges faced to achieve that.

• Comfort in addressing the less popular aspects of the role, such as encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resultant friction.

• Insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that are actively utilized by your team, rather than solely those that enhance your own productivity.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your individual contributions.

• An intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications provided.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews and an evaluation based on a real codebase.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace