Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant Android product features from conception to release, collaborating closely with Design.

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

• Write code, review pull requests, and offer developmental insights.

• Actively remove obstacles for engineers and resolve team challenges hands-on.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

• Maintain clear, consolidated, and thoroughly tested shared components.

• Drive improvements in team processes and working methodologies.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing underlying systems.

• Expand automated verification processes and advance testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Define review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

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

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a major surface 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.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-duration background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and approaches to writing them, including aspects that may not be testable.

• Proven experience in introducing practices or changes that have been sustained post-implementation.

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

• Ability to discern which changes require extensive review and which do not.

• A history of building solutions that the rest of the team effectively utilizes.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX.

• Self-motivated to improve the app and codebase beyond initial specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Experience with open source Android projects is a plus.

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is advantageous.

• Participation in several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.