Team Lead, Android Core Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kansas, +1 more state.

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive technical feedback.

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving challenging issues.

• Recognize reusable solutions within the team and streamline redundant implementations.

• Ensure shared components are tested, organized, maintained, and consolidated.

• Initiate changes to team processes as necessary.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification to earlier stages by broadening automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions and focus the team’s attention on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering, communicating team constraints promptly.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with meaningful projects and dedicated learning time.

• Write and review Android code while taking responsibility for core product features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership roles or ownership of significant projects while remaining actively involved.

• Strong proficiency 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 tasks.

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

• An example of a change you implemented that became ingrained in the team after you stepped back, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve that.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to alter their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on the system’s functionality.

• A proven record of developing solutions that your team actively utilizes, rather than just those that enhance your own efficiency.

• Ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal interactions.

• Strong product design instincts, user empathy, and motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specified requirements.

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

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews plus an evaluation on a real codebase.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with application submission.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive work environment