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, maintain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming challenging problems.

• Standardize successful implementations for team utilization.

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

• Lead improvements to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Move verification earlier in the process through automated checks.

• Conduct planning focused on outstanding decisions.

• Establish review criteria and ownership for approvals.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, addressing team constraints promptly.

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and supply nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers with impactful work and learning opportunities.

• Complete multiple technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment during the recruitment process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major 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 tests.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• Proven experience in establishing enduring team practices and articulating the associated trade-offs.

• Comfort in prompting changes in workflow and managing any resulting friction.

• Ability to discern which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system behavior.

• A history of developing solutions that the team actively utilized.

• Capability to explain how the team collaborates with AI agents.

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

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Provide links to a portfolio and LinkedIn profile when applying.

• 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 office requirements.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.