Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer meaningful feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles by investigating stalled tasks.

• Standardize solutions for team-wide implementation.

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

• Lead improvements to team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes to the left and broaden automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Define review criteria and ownership of approvals.

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

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Support early-career engineers with appropriately challenging tasks and dedicated learning time.

• Write and review code, taking hands-on ownership of features.

• Conduct a codebase assessment and articulate technical reasoning during interviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team 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 in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background processes.

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including areas that cannot be covered by tests.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that continued after your involvement, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and accepting the resulting friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of constructing solutions that are genuinely utilized by your team, rather than just enhancing your own efficiency.

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

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and a drive to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews, along with an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

• 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 workplace