Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Maintain and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Write code, review pull requests, and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for team-wide application.

• Maintain well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Drive improvements to team processes and working methodologies.

• Minimize the manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Address recurring issues by enhancing underlying systems.

• Shift verification left through automated checks.

• Manage planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Define review requirements and sign-off responsibilities.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and development time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a significant feature while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency 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.

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

• An example of a contribution you made to a team that continued after your direct involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve that.

• Some experience in encouraging team members to adapt their work habits and managing any resulting friction.

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

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

• Ability to explain how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and a passion for advancing Android UI/UX beyond established specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond initial requirements.

• Excellent communication abilities.

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

• Participation in several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Experience with open-source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office.

• Commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

• Interview process designed to be completed within a week.