Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to deployment, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

• Maintain and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist team members by troubleshooting technical challenges.

• Identify and streamline reusable solutions within the team.

• Ensure the code remains tested and clearly documented for shared use.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual interventions during release processes.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Promote early verification by increasing automated testing measures.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Define suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and development time.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Comprehensive understanding of the significance of testing and strategies for writing effective tests, including limitations.

• An example of a successful initiative you implemented within a team that continued after you stepped back, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role, such as encouraging changes in team workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes warrant thorough review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A history of creating tools or solutions that benefited the entire team, not just those that improved your productivity.

• Ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your personal contributions.

• Strong product design sense, user empathy, and ambition to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the basic specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Excellent communication abilities.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects (bonus).

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus).

• Portfolio and LinkedIn profile links are requested with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive work environment