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 concept through to release in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Conduct reviews of pull requests and provide constructive development feedback.

• Assist engineers by investigating complex issues to remove obstacles.

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

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

• Propel enhancements to team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification earlier in the process and expand automated checks prior to nightly QA builds.

• Facilitate planning so the team can concentrate on work requiring decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off procedures.

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

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

• Mentor early-career team members by providing meaningful work and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience leading a team or overseeing a major product surface 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.

• 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 of test coverage.

• Evidence of an initiative introduced to a team that continued to exist after the candidate ceased promoting it, along with an honest assessment of its impact.

• Comfort in requesting changes in how people work and managing any resulting friction.

• Capability to discern which changes require extensive review and which can proceed without it, based on system behavior.

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

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a drive to enhance Android UI/UX beyond set specifications.

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

• Strong communication skills.

• Inclusion of portfolio links and LinkedIn profile with the application.

• Contributions to open source Android projects or experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS are advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully distributed work environment.

• No physical office.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.

• Multiple technical interviews along with an evaluation on a real codebase, with a target process duration of one week.