Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of key features from conception to release, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback.

• Assist engineers by resolving blockers and investigating technical challenges.

• Identify and standardize reusable solutions within the team.

• Ensure shared components are tested, clear, and well-organized.

• Drive improvements to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Increase automated verification and shift testing to earlier stages in the development cycle.

• Facilitate planning sessions and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and approval processes.

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

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering meaningful work and learning experiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a significant 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 extended background processes.

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including awareness of what cannot be covered.

• An example of an initiative you introduced that remained effective after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort involved.

• Comfort with the challenging aspect of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• An understanding of which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of developing tools and features that were genuinely utilized by the team, not just those that enhanced your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, rather than just your personal approach.

• An intuitive grasp of product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

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

• Strong communication abilities.

• Successful completion of multiple technical interviews, along with an assessment based on a real codebase.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.