Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by removing obstacles and investigating any work that has stalled.

• Standardize reusable solutions and merge duplicated implementations.

• Ensure shared components are tested, well-documented, maintained, and consolidated.

• Optimize team processes and identify when modifications are necessary.

• Minimize manual interventions required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off protocols.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with a focus on learning and development opportunities.

• Write, review, and take ownership of Android code and features while guiding team execution.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major project while remaining hands-on.

• Strong expertise 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.

• Acknowledgment of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including what cannot be covered.

• An example of an initiative you implemented within a team that remained effective after your involvement ended, along with a candid assessment of the efforts required to achieve that outcome.

• Some familiarity with encouraging changes in work habits and managing the subsequent friction.

• Insight on which modifications require extensive review and which can proceed with minimal oversight, based on system functionality.

• A history of creating solutions that are actively utilized by your team.

• The capability to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and the motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specified requirements.

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

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects (bonus).

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or Node.js (bonus).

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace