Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android core product features from conception to release, collaborating closely with the Design team.

• Be responsible for maintaining and enhancing reliability metrics for essential features.

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

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving obstacles.

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

• Ensure shared components are tested, clear, and reusable.

• Initiate changes to team processes as necessary.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Promote early verification by broadening automated checks prior to QA.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on tasks that require decision-making.

• Ascertain the appropriate review levels and required approvals.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating team constraints proactively.

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing them with meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leading a team or managing a major surface while maintaining hands-on involvement.

• Proficient in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit testing.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running processes.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including limitations.

• Proven experience implementing a change that was successfully adopted by a team.

• Comfortable in requesting changes in work methods and managing any resulting friction.

• Capable of determining which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system behavior.

• History of building solutions that the rest of the team utilizes.

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

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and a desire to elevate Android UI/UX beyond set specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Include portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully distributed work environment.

• No physical office.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

• A comprehensive interview process consisting of multiple technical interviews and an assessment on a real codebase, aimed at completion within one week.