Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Conduct pull request reviews and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by resolving technical challenges.

• Recognize reusable solutions within the team and promote their implementation.

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

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Advance verification practices by increasing automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions and direct team focus on unresolved tasks.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off protocols.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering.

• Manage critical situations, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Offer learning opportunities to early-career engineers.

• Actively write code, review code, and take hands-on ownership of features.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of major 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.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

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

• An example of a practice you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve this.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in workflow and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven record of developing tools that your team actively utilizes, beyond just enhancing your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your personal practices.

• An intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to elevate Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is detailed in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Participation in multiple technical interviews and an evaluation on a live codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.