Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of major features from conception through to deployment, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

• Manage, maintain, and enhance reliability metrics for crucial features.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers by removing obstacles and addressing team challenges.

• Standardize solutions and unify shared components.

• Ensure shared code is well-tested, clear, and maintainable.

• Drive improvements in team processes and methodologies.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

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

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and ownership of approvals.

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

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

• Mentor junior engineers.

• Write and review code while taking a hands-on approach to feature ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leading a team or taking ownership of 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 long-running background tasks.

• Understanding the importance of testing and the approach to writing effective tests, including the limitations of what can be covered.

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

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging others to change their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of building useful tools for your team, not just those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond just your personal experience.

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

• A self-motivated approach to improving the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace