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 deployment, collaborating closely with the Design team.

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

• Conduct pull request reviews and offer developmental insights.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles by investigating unresolved issues.

• Identify and promote the adoption of reusable solutions within the team.

• Maintain shared codebases and streamline redundant implementations.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

• Minimize manual efforts required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying fundamental systems.

• Promote early verification and broaden automated testing measures.

• Oversee planning and prioritize tasks that demand decision-making.

• Establish review standards and define ownership for approvals.

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

• Manage critical problems, oversee feature launches, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

• Provide mentorship to early-career engineers by facilitating learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience leading a team or managing 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 testing.

• Demonstrated experience in shipping and sustaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

• Knowledge of the significance of testing and strategies for writing effective tests, including limitations of coverage.

• Initiated a change within a team that continued to be utilized post-implementation.

• Comfort in prompting changes in work habits and managing the associated friction.

• Skill in discerning which modifications require thorough review and which do not.

• Proven history of developing solutions that the team actively employs.

• Capability to articulate how the team integrates AI agents into workflows.

• Strong intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX.

• Self-motivated to enhance the application and codebase beyond initial specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews alongside an assessment on a real codebase.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links in the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment with no physical office.

• Commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

• Technical interview process wrapped up within one week.