Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable implementations throughout the team.

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

• Drive improvements in team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure correct releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by refining the underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and integrate testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Manage planning efforts and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and define approval responsibilities.

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

• Address critical issues, manage feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering learning-focused tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, with a background in team leadership or ownership of a major 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 with launching and maintaining background audio or similar long-running background processes.

• Awareness of the significance of tests and approaches to writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• An example of an initiative you introduced that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest assessment of its implementation costs.

• Comfort with the challenging aspects of the role: encouraging team members to alter their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that are utilized by your team, rather than solely those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your individual contributions.

• An intuitive grasp of product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to elevating Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace