Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android features from inception to release, collaborating closely with the Design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members by removing obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Identify and standardize solutions for use across the team.

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

• Enhance team processes and propose workflow improvements.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification to earlier stages and broaden automated testing prior to QA.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on outstanding decisions.

• Establish appropriate levels of review and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams while proactively identifying team constraints.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, including time spent leading a team or managing 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 long-running background processes.

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

• An example of a process you implemented that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort in advocating for changes in team workflows and navigating the associated challenges.

• A perspective on which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• Proven history of creating solutions that are actively utilized by your team.

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

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

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

• Strong communication skills.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn profile with the application is required.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive work environment

• An interview process designed to be completed within one week