Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Conduct pull request reviews and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable solutions within the team and eliminate redundant implementations.

• Ensure the shared codebase is well-tested, clear, and reusable.

• Enhance team processes and working methodologies.

• Decrease the manual efforts needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Increase automated verification and prioritize testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Lead planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off procedures.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering learning opportunities.

• Conduct technical interviews and evaluate candidates against a real-codebase during the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major surface 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 sustaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including understanding limitations.

• An instance of a contribution to a team that became a lasting practice after your involvement, along with an honest reflection on the efforts required to achieve it.

• Comfort in encouraging others to modify their work approaches and managing the ensuing friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, based on system behavior.

• A history of creating solutions that the broader team utilized.

• Ability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• An intuitive sense for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond mere specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhance the app and codebase beyond the initial requirements.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Include portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully distributed work environment.

• No physical office.

• Supportive and inclusive workplace.