Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant Android features alongside the design team, managing the process from initial decisions to final release.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate team challenges.

• Identify reusable implementations and streamline shared components.

• Maintain a well-tested, clear, and unified shared codebase.

• Propel improvements in team processes.

• Minimize manual interventions necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes leftward and expand automated testing.

• Conduct planning sessions aimed at unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

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

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

• Mentor junior team members.

• Complete multiple technical interviews along with a practical assessment on a real codebase during the recruitment process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership roles or ownership of significant surfaces 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 tests.

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

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and the methodology for writing them, including limitations.

• An example of an innovation you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the cost of implementation.

• Comfort in advocating for changes in work practices while managing any resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized.

• Proficiency in articulating how your team collaborates with AI agents.

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

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

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

• Completion of several technical interviews, in addition to an assessment on a real codebase.

• Experience with open source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.