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 launch, collaborating closely with the design team.

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

• Conduct reviews of pull requests and offer constructive feedback for development.

• Remove obstacles for engineers and address technical challenges.

• Recognize and standardize reusable solutions for the team.

• Ensure that shared components are well-tested, clear, and consolidated.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes and workflows.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Broaden automated verification efforts and shift testing to earlier phases.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Define requirements for reviews and establish ownership for approvals.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by assigning meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

• Conduct technical interviews and assessments within a real codebase during the recruitment process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership roles or significant project ownership while remaining actively engaged.

• Proficiency 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 prolonged background tasks.

• A solid understanding of the significance of testing, including how to approach writing tests and recognizing limitations.

• An example of an initiative you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement ceased, along with an honest reflection on the effort required to achieve this.

• Comfort in requesting changes in team workflows and handling the resulting friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

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

• The capability to explain how your team collaborates with AI agents.

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

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the application and codebase beyond established requirements.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Provide links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile when submitting your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote working environment.

• Flexible work-from-home options.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.