Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback for educational purposes.

• Assist engineers in overcoming technical challenges by investigating impediments.

• Recognize reusable solutions within the team and streamline duplicate implementations.

• Ensure shared components are tested, organized, maintained, and consolidated.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention in ensuring accurate releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Promote early verification by expanding automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish suitable review levels and necessary approvals.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering, highlighting team constraints early on.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing meaningful work and dedicated learning time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including experience leading a team or owning a major surface 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.

• Background in shipping and maintaining background audio or other types of long-running background tasks.

• Understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including the limitations of what can be tested.

• An initiative you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid account of the resources it took to achieve.

• Comfort in encouraging others to alter their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, supported by an understanding of the system's functionality.

• Proven history of developing solutions that are utilized by the rest of your team.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Excellent communication abilities.

• Portfolio and LinkedIn profiles are requested with the application.

• Experience with open-source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is advantageous but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.

• Multiple technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week.